RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

The one thing some people here seemingly can’t get their heads around is ‘There is no such thing as a free lunch’.

Nope. Haven’t been to church in years, other than weddings/funerals/baptisms..

Marty had a car given to him for 5 years that nobody knew about so its very reasonable to suspect he also wasn't paying any BIK tax for those 5 years. Tubridy may not have committed a legal crime but its very obvious now he knew he hadnt taken a pay cut thanks to dee forbes emails yet he publicly pontificated how great he was for taking a pay cut, so he is absolutely guilty of a moral and ethical crime in the eyes of the public. Also as his pay was indeed being topped up secretly theres a high chance he may have questions to answer from revenue regarding tax evasion which is illegal.

I've not seen or heard of anyone baying for his blood. I have however seen and heard taxpayers and more importantly those who pay the licence fee not wanting RT to return to the airwaves. He is as culpable as all those who were face down ass up in the trough of other peoples money. He could have come clean as he admits but alas he drifted into the weeds where he remains. He may come clean next week with his mouthpiece NK riding shotgun. I doubt it. RT has no-one but himself to blame for the trouble he's in. He's an adult. He can if he wishes apologise and maybe salvage some personal dignity but professionally his brand is dead.

Can I ask ye, why do you not think he’ll be open and honest? I would have thought he would be and a hell of a lot more honest than any of the board members would be? It’s his career after all- if he doesn’t perform well, he’ll suffer.

We need a state broadcaster and I am sure plenty of people are happy to pay a license fee to fund such an entity. News, current affairs, national events etc. TV, Radio, Online. What we don’t need is a commercial station funded by public money. Such an entity ought to sink or swim based on ubiquitous subscription models, advertising revenue etc. They can happily pay out the bones of half a million to presenters since this “talent” will be what motivates people to sign up and nobody would give a damn because high earners would clearly be deserving of such remuneration i.e. if you’re good at something, don’t do it for free. It’s coming to the point where enough is enough and a bifurcation of RTE as it is will happen. RTIE will be the new state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Idirlíon Éireann. The commercial side can be sold to the hightest bidder, the productions and programmes all for sale. So if you really want to see The Late, Late Show, Home of the Year or *shudder* Dancing with the Stars then you can. Just not on RTIE.

Nah, he would have had to torch the car if there were bodies.

I think the reason people may not want Tubridy back is simply because he’s spent the last few years of lockdown lecturing the fck out of anyone who would listen to him while raking in tons of money whilst others suffered job losses etc

But like, how fcking asleep have people being??? We’ve known about his inflated salary for years- I personally can’t stand the guy and have many times slated him in the weekly boards LLS discussion threads in the TV forum- if people are only waking up to the true Tubridy now, and responding, well where were you for the last 10 years?

Since his salary year on year was published and often a topic of discussion on social media and print media, there’s absolutely no way he can avoid the question; “Why didn’t you ask RTÉ to correct that?”

And their posts just show the sort of cavalier approach to honesty that pervades certain groups - a "nothing to see here" attitude that's going to be hard to shift.

The ordinary staff are livid right now- as are the journalists- I’d say there’s no scorn like a journalists scorn- especially a retired RTÉ journalist like Ciarán Mullooly

• I hope he continues to speak out
• https://twitter.com/ciaranmullooly/status/1676848179881361408?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Can Tommy Dooley line out for Clare this weekend in the backs ? I’m listening to him from morning Ireland defending Marty Morrissey.