RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I don't know but I imagine it was probably a simple case of him acquiring effective monopoly power over the representation of "talent" within RTE's ranks.

Someone within RTE had to have hired him first, lets say it was Pat Kenny. Within himself and Pat, they played hardball on a couple of contract negotiations, netted Pat huge moolah back in the pre-crash days and then word of mouth within RTE did the rest. Pat recommended him to colleagues and he began snapping up one presenter after another because he had a proven track record of getting results.

Fast forward to the last 5 years and one man effectively own's 80% of RTE's on-air staff. That's a lot of bargaining power. Factor in that he had afew shady deals and arrangements (barter account outside the jurisdiction, dodgy invoicing practices etc) and you can see that NK could easily call the shots, especially when dealing with a mannequin like Dee Forbes.

the real problem of course was that nobody in RTE had the nuts to tell him to eff off.

RTE held all the cards but they were too foolish to realise it,hence the current debacle which will have to be unravelled.

Too much like hard work.....think George Lee

Unless, as another posted said earlier, he somehow gets nominated to the Seanad he wouldn't have a hope in our parochial political system. He'd get the vote of the people who were phoning Liveline on Friday but outside of that he wouldn't have a hope as he'd make everything about himself rather than fixing whatever local issue the voters in his potential constituency are concerned about, assuming he'd even have the slightest notion what that is. Even if our political system didn't focus on the local he wouldn't have a hope as he's basically clueless about everything as a result of his decades long bubble created by living in RTÉ since he was a teenager.

I could not see Tubridy starting and growing a successful podcast. That takes hard work and effort. Say what you like about Vogue Williams and her equally tiresome buddy, but I bet they put the hours in and have to do a shedload behind the scenes to get that twaddle out on time every week. Tubridy's been institutionalized in RTE for so long, with an army of skivvies doing his actual job for him, that the idea of him going alone on a podcast ala Eamon Dunphy is just comical!

What the hell would the subject even be? Books I half read? Quirky young fogey clothes I still love? Strolls on the beach in Galway while looking wistfully into the middle distance and contemplating 'Irishness'?

Things are so bad for Tubridy right now that the good people of Galway wouldn't even have a parade for him. And they'd have a parade for just about anything in the parade capital of Ireland.

Regards...jmcc

Agewise, Vogue Williams and some of those other podcasters are in the demographics for podcasts. Tubridy is not. Tubridy trying to do a podcast would be as cringe-worthy as Dad Dancing.

Regards...jmcc

Not a hope Tubridy could do a podcast, he couldn't even read what was laid out in front of him on his radio show.

Offering Tubs up isn't tackling the problems of RTE reform and mismanagement.

No it wouldn’t

Kind Regards,

Oscar 🤪

It's just the start, give the man time.

Well if that was indeed what happened, it's just laughable that a Semi-State could find itself in such a position.

Imagine if you're running a business and a supplier tried to dictate not only the prices but also tried to get you to fudge your accounts to no-ones benefit but the supplier himself.

Funny to think back now of Kelly's play-acting now during the PAC hearing. Misrepresenting himself and his company as the 'little agency that could'.

I'd say there's been some Jerry Maguire type begging going on in the past few weeks to keep his remaining clients.