RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

There is zero chance of DF or any of the others who have recused themselves one way or another, appearing before any committee. Move on.

Turbridy will return to radio but in a much different programme. It could be around books and the arts, some niche listening.

I agree DF is gone. She may have though BOK's performance might signal someway of going to one of the committees but, once Noel Kelly had introduced BOK's email to him and then how BOK and DF arrange for BOK's exit package, she probably changed her mind.

RTÉ need to let us know if Jim Jennings is really sick, if he is really sick why wasn't he put on the Leadership board?

A tax on the streamers and online gaming services is stupid. I chose to pay for these services and why should I pay a tax on top of what I pay them just because RTE can't manage its finances properly?

Why should we be paying extra for RTE's fookups? If RTE can't manage to run properly with the money it is getting, then it needs a root and branch clear out and a major overhaul on how it's run.

We can't keep bailing out major fookups. We are still fooking paying for PMPA and that took place back in the 1980's.

Fairness 🤣. I agree with everything you have said on here over the years @ButtersSuki you have been proven right much to the chagrin of the RTE, RT & NKM acolytes on here who have unsuccessfully tried to shut you down.

The reason people are not paying the licence fee Vincent is because RTE is not for purpose. If RTE no longer deals with NKM, dumps RT and cuts the high earners wages then people will start paying the licence fee again.

Why do you expect people to pay for a service that is taking us for granted. If RTE was in the private sector it would be long gone by now or would be surviving in a much slimmer version.

No he means the people who work with him on his radio show as well as other presenters and reporters like Emma O'Kelly and Paul Cunningham alongside the rest of the RTE who have taken pay cut after pay cut.

We may not get to choose which taxes we are forced to pay, but we certainly do choose licences and fees. In it's most basic form, if I do not drive, I do not pay for a driving licence. I would not even know where to start with fees. Fees can be waived, suspended, transferred and most obviously, they can be avoided without having to tell untruths.

What you are suggesting should be implemented is so detached from anything that is grounded that I cannot believe you are being serious, but more likely trying to bait some people in here.

"It's not fair"

Hmm...

Yeah, that would be his bag all right....maybe a US Politics circa 1960 - 1980 podcast and some sort of charity misery slot for a nice change of pace once a month.

He was definitely in 'barrister mode' on the Sunday Game, wouldn't let anyone else get a word in, he was unlistenable eventually especially all the trash talking he did of Mayo all because of a personal vendetta...well rid of him on the Sunday Game.

Well, if that’s going to happen he’d better start reading some books and learning something about the arts. He probably already thinks he’s Ireland’s Melvyn Bragg, but he really ain’t.

More likely that it’s pure optics. I don’t see Bakhurst being able to lead the significant change that RTE needs.

Nobody in RTE should be on more than 100k.

Needs to be capped and properly regulated to ensure this shyte doesn't happen again.

Of course we know what's actually going to happen....

Tubs and the rest of the gang are probably down in Fagans drinking pints of Bass with Bertie, laughing about it.