RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

09-09-2023 09:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090630#Comment_121090630

Haha my bad so. It also sounds like I didn't miss much of a game.

Still a very strange set up not to be able to watch abroad.

jmcc · 09-09-2023 09:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090672#Comment_121090672

The rights were probably sold to a UK broadcaster and it may have been on one of the UK channels. As for the RTE Player, that's a disaster story in itself.

Regards...jmcc

09-09-2023 09:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090672#Comment_121090672

It was on RTE 2 also, I think, not that I watched

machiavellianme · 10-09-2023 12:11AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090580#Comment_121090580

I can't remember the last time they didn't publish one. It certainly must be well over 100 days ago?

Whats worse is that very few of them said anything interesting and even fewer criticise him. They're mostly puff pieces. Have they no shame?

podgeandrodge · 10-09-2023 12:40AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091258#Comment_121091258

and none of them asking about the 150k any more, like it never happened.

fritzelly · 10-09-2023 12:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091258#Comment_121091258

And usually just the fluff piece takes a paragraph or two then 20 paragraphs reciting everything that has happened - copy paste every article

AndyBoBandy · 10-09-2023 08:39AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090612#Comment_121090612

You need a VPN player that works with TV players like RTÉ & Virgin Media…

HolaVPN was the one that worked for me..

I was able to watch the All Ireland Final back in July on my phone through the VPN while in Lithuania… I was then able to cast it from the phone onto a 55” TV and the picture was excellent…

Karppi · 10-09-2023 09:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091551#Comment_121091551

You're busted! That's Meghan's panama hat hanging in the lobby, isn't it?!😁😁

AndyBoBandy · 10-09-2023 10:21AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091682#Comment_121091682

That’s a hat she got in Penneys

Oscar_Madison · 10-09-2023 11:13AM

Good interview with Patrick Kielty in Sunday Business Post today- some great responses to questions - I’m really looking forward to him making a success of TLLS- I think he’ll be a breath of fresh air tbh

Oscar_Madison · 10-09-2023 11:19AM

Interesting times - it won’t impact TLLS in quite the same way as you could count the number of A listers over a season on one hand but still- it might encourage creativity and innovation as a result

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12500265/BBC-Graham-Norton-hollywood-alist-guests-SAG-AFTRA-strikes.html

KevRossi · 10-09-2023 11:51AM

If Norton wants A-listers then surely our very own Ryan Tubridy is available.

I mean if he can fit the time in, in between his podcasts, writing a comic and going to London to meet the insatiable demands of his UK fanbase.

Woodie40 · 10-09-2023 12:23PM

A breath of fresh air? It’s on RTE so all the usual goons will be lined up to continue the propaganda.

Let that shower of cronies survive on advertising and cancel the licence fee.

Having two bites of the cherry for too long has led to this debacle and of course, jobs for the boys, family, freebies. Why should we pay for their lavish lifestyle. Enough.

10-09-2023 02:30PM

Kielty was interviewed by Meeeriam this morning, comes across as a guy without notions about himself. I particularly liked that he said things could go wrong, but he’d try and keep humour in the show. He seems to have a grip on what can be best about the LLS, and I feel he will make it appear more spontaneous, maybe a bit more like back in Gaybo’s time. I liked when he quoted his mother up in County Down, when it might be suggested she’s proud of her son, her response would be “which of my 3 sons are you talking about?” He’s making sure to let us know ego and vanity are little part of him.

Hyperbollix · 10-09-2023 02:38PM

I have high hopes for Kielty. If he's allowed creative input, he'll make the LLS at very least worth the odd watch. Even with poor guest lineups, he'll make a fist of it I think.

Furze99 · 10-09-2023 04:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091859#Comment_121091859

Heard him interviewed earlier. Thought be was bigging the show up a deal more that it is in reality now - the best live chat show in the world etc.

The LLS is increasingly irrelevant to anyone under 50. It's in the death throes.

Rubberchikken · 10-09-2023 06:04PM

No loafing Oaf no ideas who this McSavage guy was until I READ the article.

Oscar_Madison · 10-09-2023 06:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121092798#Comment_121092798

I honestly can’t disagree with a word that you’ve written - I’ll still give him a decent chance though to make a go of it

yagan · 10-09-2023 06:26PM

I don't think Kielty will be a seat filler like Kenny and Tubridy were.

He made his name on the comedy circuit so knows the show is the thing, not him. He'll be conscious of numb bums on seats and at home, and I reckon the shortened 90 min length is his idea.

KevRossi · 11-09-2023 07:30AM

Had to read that a couple of times to realise PK is Patrick Kielty and not Pa Kenny.

whisky_galore · 11-09-2023 08:09AM

The LL is a dying format, the scheduled tv talk show, moreso when it's the merry go round of RTE canteen regulars and nobodies outside of this island.

Beechwoodspark · 11-09-2023 08:13AM

Ads on the radio for the Willy Wonka musical coming in a few months.

Noel Kelly needs to work fast and block book Croke park as direct competition - “Toyman - the musical” starring none other than the “beloved by all” Ryan Tubridy.

11-09-2023 08:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121095448#Comment_121095448

I keep seeing it as Pat Kenny too, so I refer to him as Kielty for clarity. Don’t think Pat Kenny would be too keen to return to RTE to present LLS 🤣

11-09-2023 08:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121095513#Comment_121095513

That’s how he could make a comeback, starring as himself in his own musical.

Cluedo Monopoly · 11-09-2023 08:51AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121093284#Comment_121093284

I doubt that too.

You didn't even reply to Loafing Oaf. That's the give away.

madeiracake · 11-09-2023 10:02AM

In today's indo puff piece he has the vespa out of storage in the UK (how did it end up there?) and there is "strong speculation" he is going to the UK after his interview with Chris Evans.

It all looks very desperate.

podgeandrodge · 11-09-2023 11:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121093383#Comment_121093383

Yeah, I'm not convinced, even of his total sincerity compared to any other presenters. Yesterday: "Kielty said yesterday in an interview with Miriam O'Callaghan that The Late Late was the show he had dreamed of presenting as a boy" - Nah, not buying that at ALL.

In relation to the senior execs getting a 10% pay rise last year despite the financial troubles, per the Irish Independent: "Leo Varadkar has disagreed with this, saying: "I don't think they should, I don't believe so.” He argued that RTÉ, as a semi-State company, was entitled to set its own salaries.It came as the Taoiseach said he didn't think it was right for Government ministers to be trying to set pay levels in State-owned enterprises like RTÉ, saying: "We have said that before.”

RTÉ will require additional funding this year, but the Government will need to see "a reform plan or a new strategy from the board or from the DG”, he said."Any additional funding will be conditional on that. But it runs its own affairs,” Mr Varadkar added.

Now, I do agree that it would probably be wrong for Govt. to try to reverse the salaries directly. But if additional funding is conditional on a reform plan, I don't see why pressure can't be brought to bear on those highly paid execs to do the right thing and reverse their own pay increase voluntarily.

In fact, to be honest, they have quite the brass neck for not doing so without any prodding at all.

jmcc · 11-09-2023 11:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121095860#Comment_121095860

The sad thing about the Indo is that someone there thought that it was "news". It will obviously cheer up his fans if they read it.

Regards...jmcc

podgeandrodge · 11-09-2023 11:43AM

Fionnán Sheahan today saying, in relation to any chance that Patrick Kielty would be delighted to have RT on the LLS show,

"What a coup that would be. Tubridy is the most talked about public figure of the summer, with a personal and professional tale full of rollercoaster emotions of the journey from triumph to tribulation"

WTF.

11-09-2023 12:19PM

Re the Late Late it needs to start later, a more intimate set, mix it up a bit more with the musicians, less PR lead, the kind of program someone who has gone out for a few drinks after work might turn on when they get home. The RT thing has got painful at this stage he needs less PR and fewer, photos with the likes of Piers Morgan an absolute idiot. NK comes across as intelligent, but if he is the one advising him at the moment, he is doing a poor job.

RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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