RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

ButtersSuki · 10-07-2023 09:13AM

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I don't even like The Smiths, but my time working in a record shop as a teenager ensues I know almost all of their stuff of by heart.

Lyrical highlights include their song "Panic" about 2FM: "Because the music that they constantly play, it says nothing to me about my life...."

From the same song, another comment about 2FM? "hang the dj, hang the dj, hang the dj..........."

Who knew "Pretty Girl Makes Grave" was a song about a former LLS host with this lyric: "oh I'm not the man you think I am"

I'll stop now.

techman1 · 10-07-2023 09:24AM

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Phillip boucher Hayes is an obnoxious bore, not too many men with double barrel names , well actually I'm wrong the healy raes. He is in good company

Haven't heard him much lately even RTE must have realised this guy is toxic for listenership figures. He is one of those arrogant presenters that keeps talking over his guests and not letting them speak when they are making a point He does not agree with

Sorolla · 10-07-2023 09:25AM

Tubs has the ability to make it anywhere.

He has an easy charisma and real Irish charm - almost in a similar way like Wogan.

I think he could be very successful in the UK market.

TruthorBust · 10-07-2023 09:27AM

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I have to assume you are taking the piss

He has the charm of a rabid bulldog

ButtersSuki · 10-07-2023 09:30AM

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That's what you took from my post?

Not sure how you think I was suggesting Doyle's work was hard slog? I simply said he was on. my flights, and he was potentially using a staff car park in the airport when he wasn't staff. I wasn't under any illusion or impression he was working all the hours for example that i was whilst taking those same flights! I was doing a 9-5 (and longer most days) when I was taking those flights. I was back at my desk in Ireland the next morning often after getting home at 1am or later - I'm pretty sure Doyle had the rest or most of the rest of the week off.

I did also state it was weekdays. From memory he was not doing the English Premiership Rugby at the time, it was other work.

ZookeeperDub · 10-07-2023 09:32AM

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It's more than the weekend. He was doing shows during the week etc.

They had jobs, good ones. No need to begrudge them. In the case of Craig he worked hard to get his. Tubs well it was a lot easier and over paid

Sorolla · 10-07-2023 09:33AM

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i hope you have since changed employer.

To be back at your desk at 9am after returning home at 1am is not OK.

ButtersSuki · 10-07-2023 09:34AM

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I call him the Pedantic Boring Humanoid. He is atrociously bad, and as pompous and as arrogant as they come. His comments re. air travellers caught in Dublin Airport on the June Bank Holiday weekend a few years back showed his true sense of smug superiority and he was rightly pilloried for same. I've met "toffs" in England who've been immeasurably more grounded than than man.

ZookeeperDub · 10-07-2023 09:34AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120828580#Comment_120828580

Most people worked that poster was taking the piss pages ago.

As I said to them before, if Tubs is such a talent why are his supporters so worried about RTE dumping him? you would think it would be the opposite

The issue is, as they know, Tubs is not wanted in the UK and if he does get a job after RTE it won't be on anything close to what he is on now

Sorolla · 10-07-2023 09:35AM

i think PBH is a fine broadcaster and he has a very broad knowledge on most topics.

ButtersSuki · 10-07-2023 09:37AM

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I have. Thank you for your concern.

ButtersSuki · 10-07-2023 09:39AM

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Just out of curiosity, are there, in your opinion, any bad or inept presenters on RTE?

Similarly, in your opinion, have RTE ever produced poor or bad programming?

Or are they - again, just seeking your opinion - the best TV and Radio Station(s) and State broadcaster in the world?

have to dash for a few hours but I will return later.

northknife · 10-07-2023 09:46AM

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Politely 🤪

evolvingtipperary101 · 10-07-2023 09:48AM

Niamh smyth giving NK and RT a preparatory lesson on the questions that are going to be asked… you’d really wonder sometimes

Sorolla · 10-07-2023 09:49AM

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OK - I will take a break for a few hours but only because you asked me politely 🤪

Water John · 10-07-2023 09:53AM

She'll never prepare them for a few left field questions, a la, 'who the f**k do you think you are'?

tobefrank321 · 10-07-2023 09:53AM

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Fake or rehearsed answers will get them nowhere as proved with Tubridy's first statement after this all broke.

Come clean, hands up, admit everything, is NK and Tubridys only option. Throwing others under the bus won't go down well, particularly with RTE.

ZookeeperDub · 10-07-2023 09:54AM

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BBC will give Tubs a big high paying job? well lets see

The BBC do have a relationship with RTE to make programs etc. How many RTE "stars" have the BBC hired in the last 50 years?

Sorolla · 10-07-2023 09:54AM

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i think it is only fair if the questions would be provided to NK and RT in writing in advance.

This will give them a chance to check their notes and run the answers by their legal counsel.

This procedure would help guarantee high quality responses to the questions

tobefrank321 · 10-07-2023 09:56AM

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Wogan and O'Brian stand out as do a few others. Funnily enough its usually RTE rejects who make it over there. Graham Norton would never be given a chance on RTE, and Dermot Morgan didn't go to BBC thought but might have ended up there.

ZookeeperDub · 10-07-2023 09:58AM

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Im sure they all got the basic questions they would be asked. The clarifications is how Tubs will f**k up

tobefrank321 · 10-07-2023 09:59AM

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NKM has to go, no question. Leaving aside Tubs, the cynicism about his influence in RTE grows daily and rightly so, when you listen to a program on radio with 3 NKM presenters on a loss making station.

ZookeeperDub · 10-07-2023 09:59AM

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Read your posts it is an excellent example of begrudgery.

They are TV presenters, what beliefs are you talking about?

bureau2009 · 10-07-2023 10:03AM

There is one particular issue in Backhurst's e-mail that I strongly disagree with.

He says the salary of the leadership team and the Top 10 presenters will be included in RTE's annual report.

I believe we, the public, should have clear knowledge of the Top 30 presenters salary, or the salary of any presenter earning over E100K. Furthermore, we should know THE DETAIL of those contracts. For example, how many shows per year they are contracted to present.

Patrick Kielty's LLS contract has been published, not sure by whom. At least every aspect of his terms and conditions are now transparent.

Water John · 10-07-2023 10:18AM

Patrick Kielty published it himself, as it was becoming an issue and drawn into the debacle. BTW would The Sun newspaper stop publishing PR crap from NK to try and distract.

Furze99 · 10-07-2023 10:20AM

We may expect a bit of circling the wagons this week from RTE, making the best of it, change but not tooooo much etc.

Irishdancer · 10-07-2023 10:22AM

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one wonders how this stacks up against state broadcasters in other European countries, with populations of similar sizes....

i'd argue it's on the high side tbh.

HildaOgdenx · 10-07-2023 10:24AM

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The committee has already shown they don't really know how to question people properly, I can't see them playing it any other way but taking it easy on him.

I agree, I can see him having a very easy time.

The big issue in my opinion also, being, how badly questions are put. Rambling and incoherent, with drama worthy of The Gaiety Theatre stage, in response to the answers, from some of them.

I wish the people on those committees would get their act together from here on. Clear, concise questions, wait for answers, no need for over the top reaction. Let the questions and answers speak for themselves.

I can't see it happening, unfortunately.

One reporter possibly Mícheál Lehane said on the news over the weekend, that he had heard of pubs planning to put the proceedings on big screens on Tuesday. The histrionics from the committees will be on overdrive.

tobefrank321 · 10-07-2023 10:30AM

People were saying that some of the Oireachtas committee members were reading this thread and then asking questions based on it. Not sure that was true, but you'd wonder if you emailed some of the members and asked them to ask particular questions, if they'd do it?

If I was a committee member, I'd want to see all correspondence between NKM and RTE. And a recording of all Teams' meetings.

Making verbal agreements over a Teams' meeting is disgraceful and to have no record of this or claim legal privilege is not acceptable.

Bulmers · 10-07-2023 10:33AM

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100%, the questioning by these people on the committee could ruin in, there will be a lot of showboating as they will know the coverage this will get and some will see it as their time to shine.. unfortunately..

the chair will need to be on point and shoot down crap incoherent lines of questioning.

RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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