RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I am convinced NKM owns, or at least has an interest in, both extra.ie and rsvplive.ie

They seem to love bumming up Tubs and his stablemates

Carl Mullen probable the only professional (Did he not kind of work his way up) is possibly not on €73k, but Donnacha is on at least €100k because he is a big rugby star, and then you have his hidden camera show and Ireland's Fittest Family.

Carl's had a food show last year.

Don't take my naivety away sometimes it just better this way! 😂

Perhaps Bakhurst's dismissal of the Executive Board en masse back in early June wasn't fully appreciated for it's significance at the time.

With O'Leary magnanimously bringing forward her retirement and Forbes doing a bunk. Makes it suspicious since Innocent people don't tend to run.

A few other posters pointed out also that the Board were paying these exhorbitant rates to the talent to justify their own exhorbitant salaries.

Millions of quid pro quo.

There was an article in a paper a couple of months back that peeked into GOL's way of life and possibly her morals. IIRC her husband was a director of some company, and was then banned for five years from being a director in any company. She then tried unsuccessfully to get him into rte.

There are missing parts to that obviously, as it was read out to me on a very, very busy day and I had planned on going back to it, but never stopped. It was roughly half a week later that I would have been able to read it, but never got back to it. I think it may have been the tabloid the mail. I believe that article may have contributed to her mental health deteriorating so rapidly if you believe it was that and not the fear of being found out.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22272380/

They mostly jumped before they were pushed in that case.

But you are entirely correct, in the sense that the situation was indeed more nuanced than some of the headlines at time suggested.

Lynch's promotion, a bit of an outlier in the circumstances; may possibly mean he wasn't seen by Bakhurst as being as culpable as some of his colleagues.

My main point was that innocent people don't tend to run.

That's right, she had the gall to cowardly text in to the PAC during the RTE appearance in an attempt to influence proceedings.

And what's worse, one of the idiot RTE lads attempted to do her bidding until he was rightly shut down.

None of these people, including Tubridy et al. has any respect for the PAC(representing us the taxpayer/license payer) ; recalling Tubridy and Kelly's late document manouver.

Kind of a handy insight into the mindset of such people.

A handy insight into human nature to be honest. Give any shower a blank cheque and carte blanche to do what they like and they will ride you bareback and insist on being thanked for their efforts.

The sad reality is, the only thing that keeps people even remotely honest is the fear of losing their job due to poor performance and results. No one at RTE had any such fear. Least of all Mr "All about the childer" himself.

That's very true.

Though not all humans behave in such a way. Not by a long chalk.

Ruthless people get to the top for a reason. And they can be some of the worst of us, unfortunately.

Tubridy was ruthless in the sense that he consistently exploited the suffering of others for his own gain. He exploited a winning formula, ratings-wise. He fundraised and raised awareness. And that's fair enough, that's noble. Kudos to him for that.

But there never seemed to be any real warmth or kindness to Tubridy during such interviews.

So I always found it slightly distasteful.