Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Knowing how public bodies and semi-states operate in this country, you can be sure of it. wink wink. Whoever owns it probably got a pair of flip flops and a few late late show tickets too and a lot else too ;)
Hopefully he's asked how he lost so many listeners and he has more researchers etc than anyone else.
It's hardly a case of the emporer has no clothes?
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Well he has already shown an alarming lack of self awareness. He is probably arrogant enough to believe he will be forgiven. With this in mind Noel and the pr firm he has employed may have advised him to make a generous donation to the NUJ, take a pay cut, as well as giving back the extra money he received . This may help to get him back in the good book of his colleagues .
Yeah, I’m the crank. 🙄
Moya's defence that "nobody came up and told me" shows an unbelievable level of disrespect for the role of RTE Chair. All of this happened on her watch and she's not even pretending to have been doing her job! But just watch Leo et al scurry around to find "lessons learned" so she can be cleared of all blame. Great fun in D4 watching them beg and scrape for favour, LOL!
https://www.irishtimes.com/video/media/2023/07/05/varadkar-expresses-confidence-in-rte-board-but-reserves-right-to-change-position/
47% percent of the people in the Sunday Indo poll said Tubridy shouldn't be back on air.
Were only the 'frankly odd' posters on this thread interviewed for that poll??
'Odd' you forgot to mention that. Would that be what's called a 'lie by omission'?
NK management and their clients know all about them don't they?
Lol. Nice effort.
Your first few posts were mildly amusing. Now you’re back to standard MO of NKM/Tubs superfan tactics of playing the man and not the ball again. Classy.
hence providing evidence or proof to them that any idea with its genesis within RTE or based on an RTE concept couldn't possibly fail, could it? They could have done well to study Moya and John's failures as well as their successes in planning for LLSTM
In fairness to them Riverdance was a phenomenon and they were brave enough to run with it. Alot of the success boils down to Bill Whelan who wrote the music years before that for something else. It also didn't really come out of RTE but actually in a chance meeting between bill whelan and moyai Doherty in a cafe on a Saturday night on South William St. That was the early 90s and dublin was a hopping vibrant city but that's 30 years ago now. Also the idea to get Michael Flatley as the front man for it also I think came from whelan I think. That was also inspirational to get an American based irish dancer rather the stereotype irish dancer was critical to its success. I think moya Doherty and Bill whelan are not friendly anymore though
Is that Tommy Tiernan 3rd left at the top!
The BBCs take on it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c97n7d4dnveo
Noel Kelly is no fool. I reckon he'll run rings around the likes of Mattie McGrath etc. next week. They'll be too focused on trying to score points for the TV. Kelly will be in the dock with Tubridy (or sitting beside him anyway) and will do most, if not all of the talking. He'll take any rap and absolve Tubridy of any blame in an attempt to keep him on at RTE. He gets 10% or thereabouts of Tubridy's income, so it's in his interest.
Tubridy, if questioned with no interruption by the right people won't look good, but he'll do the 'humble apology' to the nation bollix and will try to wing it from then on. Bring his mental health into it and jobs a good 'un.
I could be good, but I won't hold out too much hope for him. I'll iterate what I said when the story broke; he's finished in RTE, damaged goods and any attempt at rehabilitation looks too much like 'same old story'. New DG will be under pressure to dump him as well.
Interesting that the HSE salaries are published while all this is going on. Hoping it passes under the radar I suppose. HSE is a basket case, so how come people are earning up to a million a year? Makes Tubs look like a pauper.
I think a period of truth and reconciliation is called for here.
As far as I have heard the summer BBQ is canceled on account of this temporary little irritation (which will soon blow over now that our public representatives had the opportunity to showcase their rhetorical brilliance).
i think part of the reconciliation would be for the talent agency to offer to host the summer BBQ.
in my eyes - it would be a win win for all.
the children and spouses of staff will get their day out and it would be a fitting dawning in of a new era of forgiveness.
remember - nothing illegal was done
We don't know that nothing illegal has been done.
Why do you think a forensic accountant has been sent in?
Forensic accountants act as financial detectives, examining questionable financial data, investigating fraud, and aiding in civil and criminal investigations.
The politicians are loving this.
All eyes and fingers pointed at RTE and not at them. They can take the moral high ground now.
I thought it was time to re kick start this old thread..... https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057160553/nepotism-in-state-broadcaster/p5
Many people don't have access to broadband. Besides, access to public-service television shouldn't be dependent on an internet connection. It's anarcho-capitalistic to suggest that a country should not have a national public broadcaster.
I would question that last point, and when RTE say they received legal advice saying nothing illegal was done, I'd take it with a pinch of salt.
The submission of false or bogus invoices which ultimately cost 230k would in any other circumstances demand at the very least a garda investigation. The fact Forbes/Kelly in collusion tried to hide the reason for the funds transfer shows an element of concealment which borders on fraud.
And yet no garda investigation appears to be forthcoming. But if someone refuses to pay their licence fee of 160 euro they could potentially end up in jail.
Whelan and McGuinness sued Doherty and Colgan.
They've already pulled a fast one.
Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly to attend *both* the PAC *and* the Oireachtas Media Committee on Tuesday - PAC at 11:30, and Media for 3pm, both of them for three hours.
There was seemingly an appetite on the part of Tubridy and Kelly to get everything done in one day.
This way they can push through with ambiguous bullshit and no call backs? I showed up bullshit then. PAC is the more dangerous committee and so they get through that without having giving any ammo to PAC beforehand and say we're not doing it again.
Who earns a million annually at the HSE?
Dee Forbes.
Sorry, I just assume that's the answer to most questions these days.
From what I remember it would be talked about on the Friday and everyone would just be saying that they were staying up to watch it, and Honestly I never remember it being mentioned on Monday morning. I think Mammy's are to blame.
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for the minute or so i listened to that and the previous time i was in dentists i have to ask how is he being given that amount of money? id do that job for way less...i can grunt and groan and belch and sound like im having a crafty tommy tank all day and ill do it for 60grand a year!! (plus 25k car allowance AND flip-flops!!!)
The licence fee is mandatory. It's the law to pay it.
When tested with a charge on a Toy Show musical, it failed. Nobody wanted to pay for it.
Lidl are getting a bit of craic outa yesterday's session anyways
https://twitter.com/lidl_ireland/status/1676684418038022147?t=fhLexeV_Z3Dcb2m09luQmA&s=19
