RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Wont happen. Retirees getting made redundant a year or two out x 6 or 10 times salary per year served. Lotto wins. Rte love the national lottery dead air filler and a big bonus player to the family.

Absolutely, the people are speaking as evidenced by the drop in license fee renewals, as a TD would you want your party basically riding roughshod over that by replacing it with the same tax payers money from another source? A sure fire way to get that anger that RTE are getting focussed on you too...sure the government will try to maintain the status quo but at some stage it may become untenable to do that...

My late father loved a political biography or similar and got Tubridy's JFK book on the 1963 visit. I had a browse through it and read a couple of chapters. Absolute bilge. It's like something written by a TY student on a work placement at a local newspaper. Simplistic, tedious paddywhack waffle that never goes much further than a minute by minute account of the visit to Ireland and endlessly waxing lyrical about how adored JFK was. It was so transparently aimed at the fawning Irish/American reader, it would make your toes curl.

I just thought to myself, in no reality would a man with this level of writing ability get a book published on this subject unless his name was Ryan Tubridy and he presented a chat show on the national broadcaster. Then I thought about the no doubt enviable tax breaks he availed off for writing it. As you said about "The Irish are coming" every nixer he takes on, appears to be nothing more than a self publicizing and self aggrandizing operation.

he definitely still was getting paid at the beginning of all this, so i wouldnt be surprised if he still is.....

Gig tickets would hardly be equal in value to the amount of advertising?? He's on in 3Arena for one night. Capacity of 3Arena is 8000 - ticket prices range from €60-€100 roughly - let's say Whitehall is really popular (I doubt it though) and they take in €500K in ticket sales.

How many tickets would Aiken Promotions be giving RTE for giveaways and staff? 200 sounds like a lot of giveaway prizes but that might be worth €12K.

Advertising costs on RTE Radio 1 are complicated but spot rates would range from €100 to €2500 according to time of day https://mediasales.rte.ie/planning/audio/radio/radio-costs/spot-rates/

Let's suppose an average one of these Jack Whitehall/ Aiken Promotions ads is €800, the €12K ticket value above would only cover 15 ads!

At the rate they've been running the ad, I'd reckon could easily be 150 at this stage - that's a guess. But could be worth about 2000 tickets!!!

So it don't add up - what else would Aiken Promotions be bartering for this advert campaign?

It's time people started looking more forensically into the commercial operations at RTE and just how it works.

The established parties are clearly fully supportive of, if not RTE as an institution, then public service broadcasting as it is traditionally understood. It's up to the electorate, if they want serious change, to switch their vote to parties in tune with their vision of broadcasting policy.

It won't be Whitehall tickets (or only a few will be), it'll be for more popular Aiken gigs throughout the year. Also possibly VIP packages for those.

The ads will be in the cheapest, unsold slots.

You'd wonder how many Leave days a year some of the RTE staffers are entitled to, given the organisation appears to almost shut down over the summer.

Found it.

Tubridy not being paid by RTÉ until new 'level' agreed (rte.ie)

RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst has told the Public Accounts Committee that Ryan Tubridy is currently not being paid by the station until a new pay 'level' is agreed.

Another brewing scandal here. Is Tubridy being paid or not and was Bakhurst telling the truth or not. Its just a shambles.