Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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A couple of his uncles were prominent FF politicians and ministers around the time he was starting out in RTE. That's always going to make you stand out above everyone else when it comes to progressing up the ladder.
I never read long posts, ever. Especially not on a phone. Does anybody? I would much prefer to read a person's opinion on the subject, and for them to paste a link to the long post. Then if I'm interested enough I can go look.
They add something to the thread and I hope they continue.
Considering your only contribution has been a disturbing attempt to doxx another poster I don't think you have any place to criticise.
Todd Andrews is FF and close to the centre of it like his sons.
Todd Andrews was chair of the RTE Authority.
Todd Andrews is RT's grandfather.
From now on, given public money is at stake, all appointments to senior positions in RTE have to be signed off by an external body, with fitness to practice checks done, similar to how senior banking positions are filled. Nepotism and all that has to be rooted out once and for all. You could argue the same should apply for prominent presenting roles.
He had vague Fianna Fail links. Fianna Fail had been the government of power for most of the history of the state. RTE is/was heavily dependent on state funding and/or the setting of the licence fee by the government as well as appointments and promotions to senior positions within RTE.
If you wanted RTE to succeed or to succeed in RTE you had to keep FF on side. There was no mystery to this, that's how Ireland operated up to about the year 2007 and Tubridy was already in the door by then.
The same could be argued for how the children, or son in law of a certain former FF Taoiseach benefitted.
By some of the same people currently criticising RTE. This is why the PAC is a bit of a merry go around, all that changes are the side of the table people sit
At a guess, it's probably 95% RTE's fault and about 4% NK's fault and 1% RT's fault.
The Covid forum is here if you want to exchange "hilarious" wisecracks. Don't sidetrack this thread.
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Alan Kelly asked for a list of jobs that were vacant at RTE over a number of years and whether the post was advertised or not. The point being there is a culture in RTE at managerial and exec level of giving jobs to insiders.
Tubridy to me is the ultimate insider. There's no doubt in my mind his various presenting roles could have been given to far more capable people. But through a combination of inertia and cronyism on the part of decisionmakers, he has climbed to the heady heights of top salaryman at the organisation, a position he is thoroughly undeserving of and one he would never achieve outside of RTE.
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Yeah I don’t envy his role TBH- this isn’t a private company that can be packaged up into various neat bundles and sold off, keeping the income generating elements and getting rid of the so called crud like you often see- it’s a minefield of heavily unionised workers on one hand who have been badly treated apparently coupled with diva so called talent who are getting far more money than makes sense but are still required to bring in the bacon
The FF apple doesn't fall far from the money tree.
Arrogant, grandiose and unable to provide meaningful input without resorting to insults. Not a good look.
I could never get to grips with how Tubrity got elevated within the presenter ranks at RTE so quickly. It felt to me that just out of nowhere he got the 2FM breakfast show. Normally it would take some time for a new presenter to get a radio primetime slot for morning or afternoon drive. I always sensed some sort of favouritism existed within RTE's management.
Lockdown will only be for 2 weeks.
It would be interesting to watch her performance again.
FFS! Will you stop with these ginormous copy & paste posts! Nobody needs them!
I suppose he could be a buffoon who knows this is all a parlour game and at the end of the day everyone is going to get looked after and there will be zero accountability.
I think your giving AL to much credit, he's a buffoon... or I am giving him too little credit.
When you zoom out and look at it, it's ridiculous. He goes into the committees, talks about untruths, places all the blame at RTE's door and then finishes up by saying he hopes to be back in short order. That would really tell you what a dysfunctional place it is. Tubridy believes none of this REALLY matters and once he's done his little performance for the nation last Tuesday, he'll be good to go and it's all aboard the gravy train once again.
To be honest, everyone involved here has given us a look behind the curtain at how things at the top of Irish society work. The RTE execs have nothing but contempt for the politicians. Tubs and Kelly were only there as a face saving operation and they too showed huge contempt for the process. It's been wall to wall finger pointing at anyone but themselves. And the politicians, with afew exeptions are just lining up to get their social media clips in the bag.
In some ways, it's too be expected. Do a quick google of Niamh Smyth, chair of media committee. Cute hoors investigating cute hoors. When you wonder why Adrien Lynch has a wry smirk whenever a TD is salivating with glee at tigering into him, this is probably what's in his mind.
Was he every really in RTÉ from the age of 12? I am not sure if he was a regular reviewer of books on Scratch Saturday, I have a funny feeling that was one review about U2 books and that they rotated that item every week and it didn't involve Tubs.
Most of these people are from rich backgrounds, Tubs was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. We just don't understand their mentality.
Adrian Lynch has been a disaster from the beginning of all this. Why was there a need for him to become Deputy DG or for anyone to be Deputy DG?
Its partisan celebrity culture on all of his defenders. They all know that one day it could be them.
I think those comments about the talent underline the whole problem with him being involved with RTE since he was 12. He has no concept of how the average Irish person actually thinks. If he did he would realise most people see through such insincere and patronising rubbish.
He was probably expecting a round of applause after saying it.
If Ryan does every make it back on tv he should do a reality tv programme whereby he is placed into various jobs for a while. Then he can learn to appreciate the real talent even more!
Don't know why RTE cover these foreign media stories given the mess they're in.
You'd think they'd just shut up about other media at the moment.
Or Dana Carvey.
A few observations from yesterday - I thought it was a bad day out for RTE generally - they didn't refute a lot of the more substantial points that were made by RT/NK. Yes there is a court of public opinion which will most likely damn both sides of this but there are other Courts as well and I don't think RTE can defend a lot of what has gone on both before and since the GT report became known about.
A lot of talk about "Talent' in the last few weeks - you can be talented in many ways but I don't think there is a lot of talent or capability on the RTE Board or Executive. Surprised to see AL getting the DDG gig and I would say KB can't have been happy with the interactions AL had yesterday (what was he thinking trying to read that text out?).
There was also a question about accountability and again I thought KB was very weak in pointing to the changes made. Nearly all of these include people like GOL and DF who were going anyway - that's not accountability. Same for the likes of BOK and MD who have left and no longer seem interested in coming to parliamentary committee. I think he will find it very difficult to remove some of the remaining people without making substantial exit payments or risking unfair dismissal cases and I'd say he knows this.
A star is a massive ball of gas.
I also wondered when I read that he said that about not wanting to be called the 'talent' in future - had that ever troubled him in the past?
Somehow I doubt it as he presumably interacted with people who had taken salary cuts while he had not. Not in the sense anyone else understands the phrase anyway.
That swan song of his was definitely made in the expectation that he will be back where he feels he belongs, any day now at all. 'My salary / contract should be made public' (I forget his exact words) but he was talking as though it's just a matter of time before everything in the RTE garden is rosy again. For him.
And on that note, I'm not sure Bakhurst is enough of a new broom there. Time will tell, I suppose.
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