Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Not good enough. She should be compelled to appear.
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Its time these golden circle types were dragged down of their high horses and made answer the questions put to them .
Time is up for the softly softly approach from the PAC, it's compel/drag in by the ears time for all of Forbes, Jennings, O'Keeffe, O'Leary
Completely agree....but unfortunately these types always manage to find a legal way to get out.....whereas the ordinary joe soap never manages to find a legal way out....
She'll be getting mysteriously sick too no doubt.
She said: "I have been subjected to unjustified, excessive and intense negative media intrusion in both my personal and professional life.
"This is very stressful to me, and my family and it is unreasonable that this be allowed to continue."
Can you imagine if Rory Covney or Jim Jennings or Richard Collins stating the above remember Geraldine O'Leary:-
From my side, I am not sure that my position is tenable because the invasion into my privacy, the effect on my mental health and, most importantly, the erroneous reports on both Twitter and in newspapers about me and my husband has crossed a line that I do not find acceptable.
Perhaps Dee, Ger and Breda and the girls just get a harder time in the press, unlike poor Rory, Jim and Dick.
but then perhaps Jim is feeling the same way.
Didn't Breda herself try to throw Dick (Richard) to the wolves? Only then she mentioned her exit package.
Unfortunately this indicates for the umpteenth time how the taxpayers were ripped off by a coterie of ‘insiders’ both in RTE and to a certain extent,the wider media diaspora.
There were big players and smaller players for sure but rest assured that it would appear that a large percentage had a finger in some kind of pie.
Whether it was eye-watering wedges,‘hospitality’ ,cars, allowances,appearances,cronieism for families, gifts,quid pro quo,the list is extensive.
All cloaked in a casket of ‘omertà’ that would shame the mafia., anstill they haven’t been brought under control.
Unbelievable Geoff.
RTE to get supplementary funding...
Remember this whenever you see the media doorstepping their latest target and calling for “full transparency”. That’s their mantra until the spotlight turns on themselves. Then it’s all about “respect my privacy…family…well-being…need space and time….”
As I said, nowhere more opaque and paranoid.
How does that actually work? I mean can you resign your position but still be on the payroll? Nothing in RTE would surprise me though.
Since I made the post I heard is confirmed on RTE. She is just no longer a producer of the LLS. In the public sector once you turn up you still get paid.
Still no sign of any job offers for Tubridy?
It sounds to me like 2 things have happened and I could be wrong.
This years interim funding has been applied as per budget 2023 but I also think that RTÉ are getting more support for 2023 and that "capital expenditure" is for 2023 not for 2024, and the minister has yet to announce RTÉ interim funding for 2024!
RTE is not public sector.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
He is keeping busy... but not competing with RTE:
Irish Country Living is delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker for their annual Women & Agriculture Conference is broadcaster and author Ryan Tubridy.
https://twitter.com/IrishCountryLiv/status/1712004103482593645
Nether is An Post but they work in the same way. Google 'An Post Rubber Room' to see how they handle excess staff.
The producer didn't resign from RTE, she's just leaving the LLS. There's nothing particularly unusual about this, it's certainly not unique to the public sector, or semi-state bodies, it would be a common enough thing in the private sector too.
Don't think it can be done. The electorate in their wisdom voted against it. We had a referendum in 2011 to allow the legislature to compel persons to appear before them however this was rejected and dismissed as a "kangaroo court". We're all about people's rights in this country but not so hot on accountability. We get what we deserve.
There is an interesting sentence in this report which was clearly based on leaks from RTÉ insiders.
Former Late Late host Ryan Tubridy also clashed with the station's new head of entertainment before he stood down from the helm of the show
We have never had a real explanation for Tubridy's bombshell announcement that he was quitting the LLS. He talked about "privacy" but c'mon, what was really going on here? Why did he drop a Paddy's Day bombshell instead of allowing RTÉ to manage this change, if that's what he really wanted?
The LLS ratings were tanking and Tubs was losing out to Tommy Tiernan on Saturdays.
Did Tubridy jump before he was pushed? Alan Tyler's appointment as Head of Entertainment was announced at the start of May, six weeks after Tubridy's bombshell but did Tubridy see the writing on the wall when RTÉ ran an external competition for Head of Entertainment?
I never really understood what Tubridy wanted to achieve with the LLS - it veered between Oprah and "This is Your Life" with a smattering of music - but it was weird that he jumped ship. Did he really expect to be paid half a million Euros just for chatting on the radio for a few hours a week? (I know, Jooooe Duffy, but seriously?)
Perhaps he got an offer from Nestle he couldn't refuse...
Another one gone
SNAP!
I don not believe for one second that Tubridy was not aware that the poop was about to hit the fan
And that's why he left.
Again, what kind of a golden parachute did Collins receive to resign??
His predecessor got a massive "redundancy" package and refuses to cooperate so he probably played hardball.
All money from the stupid taxpayer of course.
Id say its a case of -
Look - you resign and we'll give you this eyewatering wedge of cash as long as we can blame it all on you. Then you just claim your mental health and family are suffering due to the stress and you wont ever have to answer any questions.
Easy money!
Of all of them, I actually have a bit of sympathy for Richard Collins because to be fair: he uncovered the questionable spending in the barter account and he was handed a **** sandwich by O'Keefe. O'Keefe then tried to publicly throw him under the bus at the PAC. And he did turn up at all previous committee occasions that he was requested to.
If I were him I'd have left them long ago and pulled out the sick note like the rest of them.
While I was thinking Collins..'another one bites the dust', I agree he did seem to try to show some scruples unlike Forbes et al.
The committee can compel witnesses to attend as it stands. The referendum rejected the Oireachtas ability to set up investigative enquiries that would've included the ability to compel witnesses.
The people were completely correct in rejecting this amendment as they would have ended up as kangaroo courts given the behaviour we see at committees
If there's anyone out there who thinks the barter account fiasco detected by auditors in March this year is not directly related to Tubridy's sudden desire to quit the handiest and most lucrative job in Irish media, I want to tell them I have a lorry load of magic beans going for sale at a great price!
Tubs had no ideas on achieving anything. Except ballooning his own bank balance.
I didn't think Collins covered himself in glory when at the committee's. He came across as not being on top of his brief and being very weak for someone in that position also some of his answers to questions came across as him not know what he was doing. In saying that I do feel some sympathy for him as he was handed this by O'Keefe as she waltzed out the door with her nice lumpsum tucked under her arm.
I still think he had to go though but definitely not the worst person in this debacle, he seems to have been the unfortunate person of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I also wonder was he selected for the role because he came across in the committees as a meek kind of person and this was what Forbes and her little cabal were looking for, someone who wouldn't rock the boat and do as they were told.
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