RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

On the idea that a PBS has no business making "niche" programmes because TV is a mass market media and everything has to appeal to the masses, IMO that's utter BS....

That argument could possibly be applied to a commercial tv station with no public funding but one of the best examples of how that itself is a nonsense is the archaeology show TimeTeam that ran for around 20 years on Channel4. That was not a subject that really made sense as a primetime TV show on C4 but the format was cleverly worked to be suitable and compelling. It had huge viewing figures, especially in the first decade of it's run and is regarded as a major influence in bringing about an interest in archaeology and heritage amongst the British public and bringing awareness of the subject to young people, may of whom went on to work in the field or related areas.

Half RTE's revenue comes from public funds, so there needs to be much more quality output created to justify that huge income. There has to be more to life than endless shows created solely as a vehicle for "Ireland's favourite" architect or chef.

I dunno... there's a Ross O'Caroll Kelly cohort out there that sums up :)

FFS!

Regards...jmcc

Forgive me. :) Perhaps more reports are needed.

Regards...jmcc

At this point they may as well start from scratch.

He's a member of the Gombeenarchy. Hard work, talent and merit have no part in their success. Patronising students who had to work hard for the grades they acihieved is a bit tone deaf but typical Tubridy. The one thing that he hasn't realised is that he's now irrelevant. No Late Late Show or radio show. He hasn't even got an opinion column in the daily or Sunday comics.

Regards...jmcc

It will be interesting to see who will be offered redundancy and who will cough up to subisidse the package been offered. Oh yes that's right sure the tax payer will give us a dig out as we have no money left in the kitty. Can we really see any of the big ten top earners been offered redundancy. I think not. 🤔

Just looked up Clarkson's bio to see was he another born with a silver spoon up his rectum. Not really, but it turns out his parents made their money from making and selling Paddington Bear toys!

Staggering to think, had he not put his shiny brogue in it, Tubridy would be starting back on Sept 4 with all this going on in the backround.......

Yeah. I thought his father created Paddington Bear but apparently he just made and sold stuffed toys without being awarded the IP rights to do so. The author of the books was going to take him to court but met with Clarkson's father, got on well with him and decided to allow him to make and distribute the toys officially, thus making them very wealthy.

Aul Jeremy didnt lick it off the ground did he!

 Is that not theft from the company?

Just out of interest,

what are the Brits NOT responsible for which you claim conventional Irish academic teaching ignores?

If anything, one does a documentary on medieval Ireland and we find out about Elizabethan massacres, planned famines, destruction of sacred items and then we get the same complaints about focusing “too much” on it.

They have that policy in Britain and the BBC, vast majority of the population are clueless about past, clueless about the present - they blame the Irish, the Pope and the Germans

RTÉ showed the BBC ‘Story of Ireland’ made by an apologist of the British empire - Fergal Keane OBE (not an actual historian) and unionist historian Fitzroy Foster

it was full of holes, sanitised, biased for the Brits, ignored most things and RTÉ presented it as their own work as they funded it for the BBC

What happened in medieval Ireland (before the nation state) that makes us responsible for things another country pursues?

as they Daily Mail/Telegraph types seem convinced in what you say for all the countries they invaded but provided no evidence