RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Exactly then this is what is making Tubridy rising my anger...

RTE should be finished with him....

He already has millions from the Irish taxpayers....if he wants to still make money let him off down to the local factory and work on an assembly line and do some real work for his pay!!

Or work as a Hospital porter and he'll then be able to claim sainthood in a few years time.🙄

How can he have it both ways? Either he is an employee in which case he could argue his case for a pay off or he’s a contractor and no pay off is due.

Yet this thread was full of tip-the-cap folks telling us how RT and RTE had done very little wrong and that it was a witch hunt. After all the waste and corruption we have seen, it's amazing that such a mentality can still exist amongst Irish people. Some will never wake up.

It really is an Irish solution to an Irish problem!

Out of contract, independent freelance operator, continues to be paid by organisation he is no longer contracted to work for, while he's enjoying 2 months off for the summer. Organisation delighted they aren't paying him any more than they actually are.............. while he's doing nothing!

Let us be under no illusion now. Bakhurst is a company man to the core. The accent and the British passport don't make him any different to any other RTE lifer who is there to ensure the gravy train stays on the tracks. Instead of showing real leadership and making a statement by declining to offer Tubridy a new contract and take the legal hit on the chin, he is no doubt going to move heaven and earth to reinstate him to the lifestyle he has become accustomed. As I said before, this shambles is run like a cross between a family business and a home for the old and bewildered.

I hope people keep binning those licence fee letters. Nothing else we can do.

I don't understand how Tubs is getting paid if out of contract, the new guy Kevin still on holidays? It is a disgrace and a farce

Hmmm… Mr Pee, I would take a different view

1. RTE not inexplicable…. They never ever respond to any crisis big or small.That’s their default M.O.
2. Remember ‘ Birthdaygate’ during covid ? Nobody came forward to respond from RTE , they did what they always do, circle the wagons, do nothing, curl into a ball and let the storm blow through.
3. Nobody could justify the wedge paid to the so-called ‘talent’ but RTE again tried muddy the waters as much as possible.
4. RTE is a nepotistic outfit where a cartel have tried to promote the culture of what we have we hold and nothing escapes into public view about how we run things.

The only reason that they are in the position they are in is pure bad luck and good accounting.

Otherwise we would still being ridden ragged by a bunch of chancers and grifters who seem to be more interested in self aggrandisement and ‘keeping it in the family’ paying for very little, rather than giving value for money.

In my opinion nothing is inexplicable with RTE, as currents events have exposed, and I’m sure we are not finished.

With Nissan taking over operations for Renault in Ireland, it is a safe bet that those appearances will no longer be required. So he should now repay the money to rte.

I don't know. The long time to "make a decision" feels like they are trying to wait out public anger so they can bring him back. I would have thought that back in early July that Tubs was done in RTE but I'm far less confident of that now.

To war-game a potential reintroduction, presumably they will stick him back in his old slot, but rejig his content. No monologue, no it says in the papers and no audience participation, at least for a while. They might slowly morph the show back on the basis of public anger towards him completely subsiding.

I suspect though that of he does come back, it will harden a significant portion of the population against RTE permanently - although I feel that irreversible solidification has already started. I personally think that you could see TV license evasion tripling to beyond 30%. We will probably see a continuous bailout of RTE until after the next election as license reform was always toxic, but now it will be radioactive.

For those that have paused their payment, what would it take to restore your confidence in RTE? I personally think salary caps and salary alignment with civil service grades is absolutely necessary. No "stars". The Donnybrook campus needs to go and the organisation trimmed. 2fm should be closed.

I understand Bakhurst is not at fault if there is big black holes due to poor clarity on Tubridy's previous contract.

However, he needs to make sure it doesn't happen again. He also must understand how unpopular it would be to keep Tubridy.

Even if it costs €1m to pay him off, so be it. Bakhurst can also make sure the settlement is made public so the higher Tubridy pushes for a payoff the greater chance he will never work on Irish television again.

Hey just put the commitments on followed by Adam and Paul while "normal people" are drinking of a Saturday night and rte are cool again

They specified that he is not on his radio show for editorial reasons so have to pay him, in employment terms that means that rte are stopping him from walking in the door..his take is he is available but on there side they arent able to put him on..this is Ireland, this is how things work..its all leveraged towards the elites and they all drink together/ put on puppet shows ala the dail that they are feuding for our entertainment etc