Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Tubs actually seems like a useful idiot to Kelly and his demeanor casts him as not the sharpest at all.
How did this talentless individual make it. His interviewing style has always been rigid and he struggles with anything off the cuff.
Room 4 at 3PM (on the Oireachtas TV site) for the next session folks
What time are we back at?
Should have gone through the list of Top 10 and ask him whether they were current or previous clients he had.
Stanley should be removed as chair.
"The chairperson is responsible for chairing committee meetings and making decisions (rulings) on procedural issues. The chairperson must act in an impartial manner. For that reason, if a chairperson wishes to express a view favouring one side of a discussion, he/she should vacate the chair and become an ordinary member of the committee for the duration of that debate."
NK should get Cadbury's to release a limited edition chocalate bar to commemorate today's meeting.
€75,000 fee ????
3pm in CR4. 🙂
Yeah I think Tubridy must have forgotten the camera was on him when they were grilling Kelly. It was comical looking at him squirming and knowing the game is up.
I'm sure himself and Noel Kelly feel that that they have enough of a hold on RTE to get him back on air but I'd bet the other presenters represented by Noel Kelly will leave him before they even think about leaving RTE.
That was a complete and utter cluster **** from Ryan Tubridy. A solidly insincere and untrustworthy person. A second hand car salesman has more charisma.
Shocking.
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The the absolute self-importance entitlement oozing off Ryan Tubriby for that whole thing the facade really came off him today.
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I think Ryan just saved his career at RTE today
Ryan has cleaned himself of allot of the mud that RTE flung at him,through no fault of his own. RTE look worse now
Ryan will be back on a "new" RTE for the Autumn schedule. That is pretty much a guarantee
RTE will have a new DG, new CFO, new financial controls, new board, new cultural changes at RTE. They will want to keep their most well known stars
RTE needs Ryan more than Ryan needs RTe
Is that Dee on the back? 😂
Yes . It boils down to his later statements that it was " unbelievable " and " who runs RTE . "
NK could have asked for double that, is the implication, and a cheque would have been written .
The invoices and contracts were just window dressing and an afterthought , is what I got from that.
Stanley speaks like an ordinary person and thinks like an ordinary person but nothing wrong with that whole exchange imo , as an ordinary person :)
From the oscar bait opening statement to the "Just taking orders" defence, that was a shitshow for the two stooges.
One thing I can't understand is how Tubridy thinks he is ever going to work for RTE again? He has thrown them right under the bus and sat there as his agent reversed it back for another go, he can't possibly believe that he can just swan back in there and pretend none of this ever happened?
Is he really that deluded?
When NK was talking about the team I was half expecting him to say that RT took one for the team 😉
a fudge and a flake
Saying that you were just following RTE instructions, that's "the Nuremberg defence" - that was a great line.
The only things that really stuck on NK were sending invoices to (foreign) companies he'd never heard of, without questioning them. And not signing such an important document.
Not a whole lot stuck on Tubs, I thought.
Did Boards ever figure out a way to show the Most Thanked posts of the day?
That was a handy feature on the old site and would have been great on a day like today.
Would someone ask "Mr Turbidy if you agreed to take a paycut why did you sign a contract with RTE that contractually guaranteed you the additional €75k even if the commercial sponsor pulled out?"
Of course he doesn't think he'll work for RTE again.
But admitting that implies - rightly or wrongly - that he acknowledges he shouldn't be allowed to.
Him implying that he believes he'll work for RTE again is just another "I've done nothing wrong" attestation.
He has thrown them right under the bus and sat there as his agent reversed it back for another go
A great description.
I didn't get to watch very much but from what I saw, they were well rattled, visibly so.
And yes, I think Tubridy is that deluded. He has lived all his working life in the parallel universe that is RTE. He thinks he can swan back in there one of the days ho ho ho-ing with his (most likely underpaid) colleagues - the researchers and other people who do the real work.
And yet we have political correspondents telling us that Stanley and his crew are a shoe in to form the next government! Not a chance. We have a SF TD in tipp who's only claim to fame before, or since, the last election was organising darts tournaments. Another beauty got elected even though she reckoned her chances were so slim that she went off on holiday instead of canvassing. On top of that Mary Lou is Mia.
Not with fraud no, in fact that's how many frauds are carried out, one party instructing a colluding partner.
And yet they started later that RT still owes Renault six appearances. Nobody picked up on that contradiction.
Yes and this default position of theirs will harm them and their earning potential into the future.
Serious enough blow, that they probably never saw coming. Blinded by thier own own reflectons
That line is the similar line of thinking to Pat Kenny mentioning the waste of money on the 150m hospital trying to frame it beside the RTE fiasco.
The problem when it comes down to it is the culture of RTE, all these little reputational cuts build up.
None of which could be likely said to be proven 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in court to prove illegality. But taken cumulatively they will leave a massive scar on RTE. Tubridy seems more keen to rebuild his image/trust and obviously feels he has been made 'the face' of the fiasco through no fault of his own,
Noel Kelly and Tubridy both know if they navigate themselves through the committees from here on after, they can refer that they made their statements in the committee, read the documents etc.
Nothing will likely happen them in a legal sense as nothing illegal has been uncovered. Just bad practice/lack of oversight from both RTE and Noel Kelly.
When Tubridy was pressed he said he probably should have kept 'a closer eye on things'. But it is clear that he feels the contractual domain/business domain is Noel Kelly's. As Tubridy put it his job is to 'sit in front of a mic' everything else is Noel Kelly - his good friend and agent.
There has been no questioning of Noel Kelly and Tubridy's apparent close relationship? I thought that would have been a better line of questioning instead of going the Noel Kelly/DG/RTE line of things. Does Noel Kelly and Tubridy socailise together? As that could imply they discuss deals 'off the record' etc at least in passing....
Ryan will be back in RTE for the Autumn schedule.
RTE were at fault , not Ryan. Because RTE were at fault, all the top people at RTE will be changed including Director General, CFO, Director of Commercial, and many of the Board
All correct, except for the Nuremberg defence thing. Catherine Murphy was lazy and grubby making that parallel. She's better than that.
As I said to some colleagues yesterday. had this occurred in March, it wouldn't be half the story it is, its only because its filling 'silly season'.
And people like Catherine Murphy ought to be more careful with throw-away comparisons.
But overall, as PAC / public interest hearings go, it was very sedate and not hugely impactful.
Well I think if they bring Tubs back in some form, they'll have him run out the last 2 years of his contract and get rid of him then. Tubridy has a contract of €250,000 a year and I just don't see how he RTE can get rid of him from a legal point of view. The payments will be an issue for Revenue, they'll decide if there's a case to be heard and it's very likely he's all above board there. (I personally think he's finished in RTE)
I think there's no public trust left in him, it will be a mark of Bakhurst's tenure and his intentions as to how he deals with Tubridy.
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