Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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You could have more than 1 person sitting in an office on a teams call
It took Fanning 6 days to apologise for his insensitive snobby remarks about Christy Dignam hours after the man died.
He's been a bit quicker here and perhaps got a call off Noel Kelly to say something.
Dreading being cancelled by the mob!
Stanley asking Bakhurst what way RTE will be run with public money. Does the chairman not realise that he who pays the piper calls the tune?
I agree, and while those acts are unethical, against all best practices and deceptive, that doesn't necessarily make them illegal. The reporting and accounting of the payments was deliberately falsified, but the actual payments themselves were legal and contractually obliged, and nobody unlawfully profited from them.
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Although I think Tubs was not being honest in this whole scandal, I feared that this would distract from the fact that RTE is a bloated, entitled, self serving organization. However, it's fair to say that this is coming through in all of the hearings. Lies on both sides.
I couldn't watch this today, any new revelations?
Dace Fanning has apologised for his remarks.
Second apology in as many weeks.
He's a liability.
The two parties colluded in an off the books scheme designed to conceal from auditors and the general public.
The question is who actually owns and funds RTE, because its the owners and funders who have been defrauded. Forbes was an employee of RTE, and never informed her employers. I'd imagine its the non executive board who are technically the owners, but someone will probably confirm that. She concealed these transactions from them.
Well if 2FM is to be kept, it can no longer lose money. Anything in 2FM that loses money has to be stopped as does the bloated salaries that certain DJ's on there are getting paid.
I think the legal rep for RTE has already stated that they consulted the Gardai regarding the invoices and no laws were broken by either RTE or NKM, and that the invoices were incorrectly worded and misrepresentative of the works etc, but that there was no theft or illegal profiting from it. It was for works which were agreed to by parties regardless for how the invoices were worded.
They all stepped down with hefty pay-offs and some were due to retire anyways. That's not consequences, that's rewarding them.
Getting a roasting? Is that meant to be progress, results, impressive?
It's a handy government propaganda tool, wouldn't make sense to close it down, when its great at that, would be more expensive to push that to private stations
If Bakhurst doesn't call in the Gardai to investigate the false invoices and fake tripartite scheme, he will have failed in his job to get accountability.
Give us our pound of flesh etc
How convenient! Hello Dave or is it Pat or Claire or Duffy :)
RTE getting a right roasting this morning and the mood in the PAC does not match your hopes.
Oh sh1t it's the spelling police 🤔
I'm mispronouncing it now on purpose just to annoy them. Renalt.
Adrian repeating the same line over and over now. Is he NK in disguise?
We're all getting Catfished on this whole debacle...
(1) Taste - Catfish (Studio Version) - YouTube
Lynch may have got his job without an interview and recruitment process but in fairness he's pretty good at dodging and weaving. Something to be said for the process of direct appointment.
Yep. Wrap it up and call it a scoreless draw.. biggest waste a time ever.
If RTE was a dog, it would have been put down years ago. Its beyond saving. Shut it down, open a new company employing most of the lower paid staff, and get rid of anyone over 100k a year.
If you're wondering why RTE accountancy numbers are so 4ucked up, it's encapsulated by the claim that 150 is approximately 15% of 1,800 employees!
Renault have spent millions sponsoring the LLS and still no-one can pronounce their name correctly.
Yep RTE and NK plus his clients are a crowd a messers.
There was only a 2 page snippet of the contract. There is definitely more to that contract than 2 pages and I'd be staggered if RT and NK left it open that if by chance he left the LLS, the contract would cease for the radio show as well. There will definitely be clauses and conditions in addition to what has been given to the public.
Its Renaau..not Renaaalllttt.
