RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

If I'm not mistaken, the Nuremberg reference turned up here before it was tweeted by DF.

RTE is still coming across as beholden to NK/RT. No backbone whatsoever.

“The invoice received by RTÉ was for Ryan’s television and radio work. As Ryan does not currently do television work for RTÉ, we will consider remuneration in the coming days and discuss with Ryan and his agent, Noel Kelly,” RTÉ said.

Mr Bakhurst also stated he would look at recouping €150,000 from outstanding Renault appearances from Tubridy if he was agreeable to returning it.

Mr Bakhurst said the scandal around the payment of Tubridy is “one of the most shameful and damaging episodes” in the national broadcaster’s history.

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Despite everything that's happened, RTE are still considering a new deal with Tubridy. And Bakhurst will look at recouping the money from Tubridy but only if he is agreeable to returning it. FFS!

Are these contractor's vat registered. It's interesting because Consultants, solicitor's,Engineers have to charge 23% vat for there services.

If it was imposed on so called talent it would change the contracting lark

Never mind upsetting her, you had me raging.

RT currently has no contract with RTE. There's nothing to sue over. There was talk of a new contract but nothing more. He's been strongly implicated in events which have had a catastrophic impact on RTE's reputation to the point its future is definitely in jeopardy. If this is not bringing a company into disrepute, I don't know what is?

Regards being sued, bring it on. A court case in front of a judge would get to the bottom of all this and who is lying far better than any Oireachtas committee. Its obvious no-one fears lying to the oireachtas committees. But lying in court is a far more serious matter.

The oireachtas committees are relatively toothless talking shops. You can forget about any sort of accountability there. All the principle characters on the RTE/NK side will know this will die down over the summer and they'll be allowed hold onto everything.

I haven't kept fully up to speed on things but help me out or correct me if I'm wrong anywhere here.

RTE claim Tubs doesn't have a contract that covers him for the radio show right now. That's why they aren't paying his latest invoice.

So if he didn't have a contract that covered the radio programme once he left the LLS, why did they let him keep broadcasting his radio show then without a contract? Was it that he was allowed to continue because contract negotiations were ongoing?

Was she the one he reduced to tears?

He would for €25,000 though.

Was Tubridy still also being paid for the LLS even when he gave it up? Did they not give separate contracts for TV and Radio? Wouldn't surprise me.

Unfortunately, unless Dee Forbes decides to appear before the committee no knockout blow can be landed on Turbridy and Kelly. Turbridy knows he is safe and will try and pursue legal action if Bakhurst is not careful.

I think it suits all sides for Forbes to stay away. She will never appear before the committee as it could involve more serious consequences for her too. It seems Bakhurst wants Turbridy back despite all that has gone on.

That Lynch didn’t have to apply for his job is both obvious and outrageous in equal measure. Jobs for the boys. He might be the rock Backhurst perishes on

Almost all of your posts contain underhand barbs at other posters who don't share your point of view and you're obviously very sore about that. Aren't you able to make a comment without making out that other boards users are a bunch of losers because if you're not, then that reflects very badly on you?

Personally I think there are huge swathes of evidence on both sides to do with tax payers money. And I think, in private, various threats of leaks are flying

I think the Tubridy/Kelly position is that the TV & Radio contract that they signed until 2025 is still valid. He has left the TV portion of it, but the radio portion should be still valid as RTE have set many precedents for that(Ray D'Arcy, Claire Byrne? etc), therefore, as far as their side is concerned, he's still in contract - but RTE unsure how much of it is payable for radio only.