RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

He's a sole trader, what should he resign from?

There’s a chain of restaurants in America called Waffle House. These guys wasted time and waffled and read off pages and repeated rehearsed answers for 6 hours.

Did he 'resign' from presenting the Late Late Show or not? Seems a reasonable and easily understood description of what happened.

At any time you could describe it yourself you know. Strange that you don't. Keep jumping it to correct other posters but seemingly incapable of correctly describing it yourself.

I’d love to know what’s gone on behind the scenes over the years between NK, Ryan and Terry Prone. Terry really hasn’t minced her words and she must move in the same circles. I wonder if there massive resentment of NK. I’m not saying I disagree with what she’s said, just that Dublin is so small, I’m surprised she’s saying it. Anton didn’t hold back either.

Yeah, the exchanges between RT & Peter Fitzpatrick AKA Postman Pat are laughable listening bank to it now 🤣

Not really that from my perspective. I don't care what anyone earns. I just care when people start to bullshit, lie and think I'm some sort of idiot who can't see through it. That's what RTÉ, Noel Kelly and Ryan Tubridy are doing.

Whatever amount of money they get is something I don't lose sleep over.

Only if they didn’t agree to let him out of the tv aspect of it, and to keep his radio portion. If they did, they can’t. Obviously there are clauses for breaking the contract with a contractor. But, as RTE were part of the setup that people have an issue with, I would doubt they have grounds to cancel the contract.

the angle they have is to reduce the contract value for the radio portion alone to such an extent that he won’t work for it.

A small but good indicator for me, showing RT and NK for who they really are, was the invoicing for services not yet delivered ie the €150k invoice to ASTUS. The key moment in this relatively small issue was when they proposed that they had invoiced for these because they were "still there, waiting to be drawn down by Renolt when. - and/or if - that time ever comes. Sheer greed, writ large on their foreheads. And they had feck all intention of returning it until this last weekend, btw.

I think the unravelling of that invoice by Revenue (why invoiced to the UK at 0%, Mr Kelly?) and by ODCE (what consultancy services and why CMS, Mr Kelly?) would be interesting

Indeed. I always thought it odd that instead of launching straight into a serious current affairs morning show like Claire Byrne right after Morning Ireland, RTE deemed it necessary to give a lightweight like Tubridy an indulgence like a 1 hour piece of fluff at 9am.

It really seems like Tubridy has a lot of leverage in RTE contract talks and Kelly was not only getting him an incredible salary but also getting him incredibly favourable slots, hours of work, side deals etc etc etc