RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Believe it or not, they are seemingly close enough and Tubs was planning on doing some sort of show with him.

Maybe TG4 have snapped him up

He’ll move up to Ulster and take the x-rated scandal departed Stephen Nolan’s spot.

Portillo got the first... the Kennedy Homestead

The RTÉ Autumn/Winter launch should be happen very soon.

It will be interesting to see what they have.

No launch this year after spending 80k last year on the RDS and 50k a few years ago, it will be a press release with Press interviews with Patrick Kilty.

You mean you don't remember those wonky light sticks (was it last year) on the beach

Remember this RTÉ gem? A wet week into the first lockdown when we were staring down the barrel of a very grim future.

RTE are a national embarrassment at this stage. But it didn't have to be like this.

Some people may baulk at the comparison but look at the IRFU. Think about where both organisations came from and where they are today. In the past, they were similar in many ways.

-Similar network of old boys from the upper echelons of society. Check.

-Guaranteed government funding and commercial revenue. Check.

-Loyal supporters and audiences, in RTE's case. Check.

The IRFU also had disadvantages that RTE never had.

-Historically the GAA was the 'favoured son' of successive governments.

-The success of another major competitor the FAI with Jack Charlton, Italian 90.

-A crumbling headquarters in Landsdown Road.

-Real, not imagined, competition from abroad for some of their best assets. The players in IRFU' case.

I'm no acolyte for the IRFU but you'd have to acknowledge that they've done a phenomenal job.

Their sustained success for 20 years now has given them;

-rapid growth of their audience share.

-products, ie the national team and provinces, that are envied across the world.

-the admiration and respect of thier international colleagues.

-a shiny new HQ, the Aviva-one of Europe's best stadiums.

-a sustainable exciting future.

RTE had the templates for success(BBC, IRFU etc). They had ample funding. They had a 100% government-funded infrastructure. They had the goodwill of the people. They even had a monopoly. They had everything.

They've now squandered everything. Do you think there might be a recurring theme here?

The main difference between the two is that in RTE barely anybody actually cares about the organisation. They're only interested in drawing as much cash out of it as possible.

Another one NK's acolytes trying to continue Tubridy’s pity party. Martin King's wife. Martin is also a client of NKM. Funny how none of these people ever mention facts like that.

'I put up a little post -- well, a little story this morning about Ryan Tubridy and somebody had mentioned how badly treatment he has been, and I totally agree,' she said.

'That's my opinion, I just think he's been treated... Okay, whatever happened happened, I just think he's been treated very badly.'

Jenny went on to reiterate her thanks, noting that 'not one person has said a bad word about him.'

It's OK to be annoyed at hubris, dishonourable behaviours, delusion and their consequences.

As people get to know more, this annoyance may grow.

I'm sure people recall the recent Oceangate disaster. It was a tragic incident. An example of hubris by Stockton Rush, brought to an extreme and absolute disaster. Lives lost because of one man's ego. The wet claustrophia of that situation made it all the more graphic for me.

So me being me, the inevitable rabbit-hole beckoned and logically led to the Titanic and it's history. I don't wish to trivialise any tragedy in support of an argument. But human behaviour is fascinating, and that's what we are all talking about at the end of the day. Bad behaviour. Poor choices. And it occurred to me. We are seeing J Bruce Ismay all over again. Not that anyone has done something so cowardly here with the RTE Scandal, I'm talking more about the dishonourable choices people make.

There's no two ways about it, Tubridy made a dishonourable choice. With the €300K+ top-up, he chose to save his own skin while many of his crew were going under. Covid in Ireland sunk a lot of people, nearly 3000, may they rest in peace. It psychology and financially damaged many others. This was the context in which Tubridy acted. He thought he was heading for calm waters.

But back to the Titanic. Tubridy is well-deserving of a small hearty slice of the public distaste that J Bruce Ismay received.

During Covid, to rub salt-water in the wound, warm under his patriotic green blanket Tubridy, snug and safe, smugly grinned around the lifeboat at the traumatised survivers. We're all in the same boat, he said. He thought he'd always know more than everyone else on the lifeboat. Ismay made that mistake as well. 

I have never heard of Jenny McCarthy, but the fact that she's the wife of an NKM "talent" pretty well invalidates any comment she might make, as far as I am concerned

Probably because it's convenient to blame the Brits for everything. And if we did real history on mediaeval Ireland, we might just find uncomfortable truths.

I've made this comment to people on numerous occasions. Irish people have a very limited knowledge of the history of our country. RTE has been utterly useless in producing any type of history programmes or documentaries. You just hear the same things over and over. 1916, the Famine, War of Independence, JFK, Michael Collins, the church controlled everyone etc.