Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Which comes to as close to 150K as doesn't matter....75K a year? Were they 2 of the years that RTE said they'd underwrite the Renault deal if backed out?
RT looked in The mirror this morning and said this is my Kennedy moment - I’m gonna be president one day - oh you little poverty children, I’m coming.
Ryan Tubridy will tell the PAC there are seven material untruths he wants to address:
1.The claim that he did not take a pay cut from RTE in 2020
2.The suggestion that his "decision to retire from the Late Late Show was prompted by this whole debacle?"
3. That he was covertly or secretly 'overpaid' by RTÉ
4. That he was aware that RTÉ were trying to conceal payments to him
5. That there was a secret agreement with Renault that he tried to conceal
6. That RTÉ's underwriting of Renault's payment obligations was a secret
7. That he did not ask RTE about their under-declarations of his earnings when they released the 2017, 2018 and 2019 earnings on the one day, January 20th 2021
Tubridy was grossly overpaid in that he's a waffling, incompetent and lazy broadcaster. However the amounts he was paid were the amounts he and his agent agreed with RTE. I don't think he has ever said that he didn't know how much that he was paid and that he was surprised at what it was.
They might, but if Turbidy denies it, how can the committee establish otherwise?
Go to court & get banged up for not paying the licence probably :-)
I wonder will the committee ask him directly did he retire from the LL because the knew this scandal was coming?
It was the "point finger at everyone" act and take no responsibility. Now the poo hitting the fan on her.
Would seem she knew about it and was helping cover it up. Maybe we would never know if the new CFO hadn't uncovered it.
The lies…. The lies… the lies
"Around this time, I mentioned it to those closest to me, my family, and my agent".
He will also say: "There is zero connection between my departure and this very raw situation of recent weeks. I informed management on March 13th of this year. I first became aware of the Grant Thornton review in May - some two months later.
"Even then I had no inkling of the bombshell which was to come when RTÉ released their statement on June 22nd”
So much for Tubs getting poached by the UK etc.....
RTE or nothing, the guy should be let go anyway. Useless and corrupt as hell. Leave him off
Prayers for Breda O’Keefe. I believe her health may be taking a turn for tge worse at the moment.
Yes I thought she was protesting too much.
What are you going to do?
I wonder where that money went to. Or was it just the usual financial incompetence from RTE.
It depends on what comes out of this - From the opening statement.....
Bizarrely, the figures they (RTE) declare for both 2020 and 2021 are wrong. In both years they overstate the amount they paid Ryan.
For 2020, the overstatement is €62,536.
For 2021 the overstatement is €83,381.
NK/Tubridy have 3 big questions to answer today.
What I'm curious about is what are all the posters who are utterly consumed by this RTE slip up going to do when it all blows over?
Tubs saying he didnt know about this when he retired
Bulls**t
Newstalk are a fully commercial station. Tubridy wouldn't last 5 minutes there.
What about the guarantee to no pay cut when claiming he took a pay cut. Letter addressed to him. He is a scumbag. Hahah claiming leave the LLS was cos of this. Nobody bar a few trolls on here would believe that
Poor old Breda came out with a lot of bluster last week and in one statement she is now shown up as a liar
This morning, Alan kelly says the fact that presenter Ryan Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly still have not provided documents "... does not look good for how proceedings will go today."
Tubridy - I was not secretly overpaid by RTE.
Also Tubridy - I am sorry for not questioning why I was secretly overpaid by RTE.
Kelly & Tubridy accuse O'Keefe of having knowledge of underwriting the €75k
Just read NK's statement. Its an exercise in finger pointing and blaming others. No mention of the fake invoices for consultancy fees. I hope the committees highlight this.
Why submit a fake invoice if everything is above board?
Contest what evidence?
Oh Dear.
It's going to get ugly and someone is going to die.
He was also hitting RTE retirement age (65) so being a contractor was probably only option really
Could get saucy now. If Tubridy and RTE go to war it's hard to see him returning at all. Thank God.
Let's see what other broadcaster in Ireland gives him half a million quid a year. LOL.
youd hope they have something but if its correct they have been lying through their teeth this past few weeks.
Kenny retiring and lining up Tubridy as his replacement?
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