Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

By all accounts they have twice as many in their Radio and TV studios as independent broadcasters would have.

I just think there's a complete inability for change. Maybe unions, maybe management or a public service attitude of the bare minimum to get paid.

Can the Irish govt allow a thousand odd disgruntled ex rte staff loose on the streets of Dublin. Not sure about that one.

The other and perhaps more plausible story (I'm sure he and his wife knew what a TD's salary was before he decided to run) was that he expected to be appointed to the front bench straight away, when told he'd have to serve his time on the backbenches he said f this.

Where is George Lee now?

He is one of these Correspondents who pops up every now and then, and even if something is happening in his area and he's on holiday's he not there to file a report.

He's the Environment Correspondent with RTE,moved from Agricultural Correspondent because of his obvious bias as Financial Correspondent presumably.

Very little George can't do apparently and RTE seem determined to exploit all his talents.

Surprised you haven't been subjected to any of his many lectures on what we're all doing wrong with the environment.

What a waste of 170 k a year....

A virtual "cup of tea"?

"Former RTÉ director general Dee Forbes agreed to guarantee payments to Mr Tubridy in discussions with the then Late Late Show presenter’s agent Noel Kelly."

Regards...jmcc

DEE FORBES and MOYA DOHERTY to announce new RTÉ Strategy 2024 tomorrow.

The DG and Chair will continue with what they have started.

ENDS.

And you wonder how they waste money, something that takes a few weeks takes a few years but should know better with t the rte player

No doubt a new team of about 25 staff has been assembled to work on the app on the RTÉ side in addition to the external developers that’ll be brought in to do the actual work….

and of course those 25 staff will all need to be backfilled in the positions that they were doing nothing in anyway by other staff, temps and new hires…

and of course everyone gets an allowance for the inconvenience…

Did she announce the Leaving Cert results? Did she say she'd take a pay cut? Did she mention what the relationship was like with Dee Forbes? Did she talk about the service that the public receive and the direction that RTÉ went?

Not economically viable to move the big top out of Montrose and down the country according to their report

absolute bullsh1t

They couldn’t have those darlings having to put themselves out having to travel from the leafy suburbs down the grim Naas Road to go to work everyday is the real answer

all these decisions should be taken out of their hands the same as any other bankrupt company

Stop watching this absolute hames of a half arsed psy-op propaganda station. Nothing is ever going to change at RTE. But you can change your own well being and ignore this absolute total hames of a mess. You're going to literally miss nothing and actually feel better for it.

Sure we are also paying for about 250,000 other things in this country that don't work either, from government policies to roads to health care. The difference is with RTE is that you literally have the choice to ignore its absolute total hames of a mess, it wants to broadcast its noise straight into your face, right into your living room, time when you want to relax and forget about all of the other messes we have to pay for by actually getting up and doing a real days work. If you are watching or listening to this craic while also being driven demented by their total fraudulent criminality then they are literally laughing at you, and they are.

All you have to do is switch their swindle off. If everybody did the same thing they wouldn't have the gas to laugh at any of us because they would finally know their swindle game is truly finished.

You can do it man, I did it, I remember you from the Liveline threads, you were very funny up on that. But I can't even listen to that mess anymore, I can't watch or listen to any of their total disingenuous output, it literally makes you feel bad. Just try stop watching it, please, you won't regret it. Most of my free time in the evening now is reading, listening to music, watching films from my own collections and browsing on the internet. I literally do not watch TV anymore. I don't mind if I have to pay for it, just as long as I don't have to see it. That should be RTE's new slogan. That station and it's output is literally that bad.