RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

This is interesting (or maybe it isn’t I dunno🤪)

The BBC publishes salaries above £178,000, which means that Ryans salary of 170k euro for his radio programme wouldn’t feature on their published list.

So even if he got a small bit of part time work on the beeb he’d likely be making ok money - problem is he put too many of his eggs in with the RTÉ basket - had he spread his wings a bit more and a bit more regularly he could have slotted nicely into some morning or drive time slot on one of the beebs regional channels -

I know we joke about Radio Norwich but if full time, the pay is likely higher than what he’s getting right now- a small fish in a big pond still pays the mortgage

Good to see that he appears to be in reasonable form anyway - like I said before, not interested in kicking the man when he’s down- if he gets another decent gig somewhere else then good on him

Has he? If so, good luck to him.

Just don't ever think of coming back here.

In the short term at least, RTÉ isn't the sort of place anyone should aspire to work in- there’s a lot of dead wood to be kicked out, a lot of old practices to be stopped and new processes to be introduced- if Tubridy can spread his wings a bit more which he has needed to anyway over the last number of years, he might look back at this episode as a blessing in disguise.

He seems to be going about things the right way anyway- my gripe as with most people is with RTÉ in general- this has been a side show that got way too much emphasis considering the much bigger issues with RTÉ and the waste of tax payers funds.

100% agree, but the statement from the union in the Irish Times and to the Government / political parties is

And the "lets stop talking about Tubrity" appeals to many people, but it fails to really address anything else in the organization.

Yes it is a side show, but there is much more to be looked into at RTÉ.

Great post. We can live in hope. I must admit if that were to happen, or anything close to it, I would start to believe in rte, and may even start to trust that they are doing something to show us that things are changing. But that would be the minimum I would be willing to accept. Normalising Duffy's, D'Arcy's and Byrne's pay among the others would not be enough for me.

He has done a few stints on the bbc before https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b0131yms and same https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0131yms/episodes/player

There are some interesting comments in this link that was posted by somebody else earlier in this thread from 2015 https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2089720/no-more-ryan-tubridy-on-bbc-radio-2

I am convinced that Bakhurst must know a few 'tricks' more than than the chocolate man when it comes to doing business. Maybe even some very old school type methods that would have been used and well-honed to almost perfection. If he Kelly starts trying to make things more difficult, as I am aware already that he is gearing up to sue, I am sure he will use everything in the book that he knows.

I am curious though, and I am sure that somebody here will know. If, for example Ray D'Arcy is given the 9 o'clock slot, does he have to renegotiate his contract? Or could he just continue with the contact that he currently has?

“Breathed new life into the Late Late Show”

Do we live in parallel universes?? Tubridy is an awful interviewer, especially considering he was mainly interviewing clowns from the RTE canteen.

Tubridy’s contract at least was based around “hours worked”- so unless there’s an increase in hours I don’t think a contract renegotiation would necessarily be required as long as there’s agreement around the nature of the type of show they’d do in the first place linked to their skills or knowledge

It's hard to see him ever regaining the levels of renumeration he enjoyed at RTE.

Like the man who fell into a hole full of tits and came up sucking his thumb.

If a person doesn't have the humility within themselves to realise how lucky they are in life, then they are usually doomed to failure.

Lack of self-awareness leaves a person crippled. Blind to opportunity, deaf to good sense and unfeeling to the sensitives of others.

It's a Greek tragedy for him. Tubridy will struggle unless he has some sort of epiphany, a damascene conversion or whaetever you want to call it.

Sadly, I don't think life has given him the tools he needs to succeed on his own.