RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

The whole of Ireland saw him say he would give that money back. There are one or two bad people in Ireland. Ryan tubridys physical safety isn't 100% secure unless he gives that money back. He would be a fool not to give the money back and use it as a PR opportunity

We’ll see how much advertising he can generate now without the RTE apparatus behind him.

That was Larry Bass, Producer of Dancing with the Stars, among many others.

100% , since bakhurst left the door ajar for him , I had the misfortune of meeting the man once , I couldn't have been any lower than shot on the heel of his boot , his arrogance was breathtaking, no wonder bakhurst said not now Josephine!

Nah buddy, too aggressive for that slot, arrogant type of person in my opinion.

Larry Bass... who resigned / was driven off the RTE board by Moya Doherty

It seems Ryan Tubridy torpedoed his own return to RTE with yet another ill advised statement. It's yet another reminder that we have been paying an incompetent fool millions from the public coffers. His repeated lack of self awareness is stunning. As much as I welcome Kevin Bakhurst finally putting his foot down I am deeply perturbed that he countenanced bringing Tubridy back in the first place. The planned reduced salary is a welcome first sign of tangible reform in RTE. It looks like the gravy train for presenters might be finally taken off the tracks.

Tubridy is surely finished in broadcasting in Ireland. He ain't getting broadcasting employment abroad as he does have the chops to cut it and here his reputation is shot.

Whoever they appoint to replace Tubridy on the 9-10 slot will be interesting.

Will tell a lot about the way forward for RTE radio in my opinion.

Callan would be my choice, at least there’s a bit of ‘spark’ in him.

RTE happy to have uncontroversial bland and mediocre presenters.

Claire Byrne is the most boring and bland presenter at the moment in RTE and she was given the high profile mid morning current affairs programme.

And Tubridy became inextricably linked with Covid and that whole period now so hated by the young because their lives were effectively stopped more than in any country in Europe. Apart from the whole pay fiasco, even if that was never discovered Tubridy was finished on the LLS . I remember he wouldn't even dress in a smart suit that time but went for the dishevelled dark badly fitted suit as if trying to bring down the mood of the country, contrast that with Graham Norton who was doing the opposite and trying to do as much as he could get away with then, After that Tubridy was finished

I have been saying that all along. There are lots of people both inside and outside of RTE who are happy Dee is too sick to attend any PAC meetings. I bet Noel Curran might also have some interesting stories to tell if he ever appeared too.

Larry Bass shouldn't have been on the news complaining. All he did was produce the worst garbage known to man and run the station further into the ground making people not want to pay the licence. He was part of the problem. The worst reality TV drivel he copied and put it on over here. The stuff that anyone with a brain would want to switch off immediately. If RTE want to sink the station even further and further then putting jackasses like him on whining is going to do it. People are fed up listening to that crap and that's going to enrage them further.