RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

He has been walking around his whole life in bubble wrap. Minded and cajoled and told constantly of his greatness. If one was wrapped up like that one would believed ones own narcissism. The man personifies a lot of what is wrong with this country. RTE certainly does as-well and he was the pinnacle / face of it.

Hopefully he never comes back and just fades into been yer man that used to be on telly. Good luck to him in Virgin… just do a decent job and don’t get sacked because i just don’t want to see him back on taxpayers dollar.

Ah look I completely agree the guy was overpaid and the majority if not all of RTEs presenters. It's been obvious since at least when Pat Kenny left that it was the time slot not the presenter that had the audience by and large. RT salary is not news. It's actually worse, historically he was paid even more in absolute terms(before you even factor inflation). Where was all this bile back then?

I never listened to him and don't plan on listening to him. He's not my cup of tea. But here's the thing he's not part of RTE management. RT is not RTE.

The guy went out and got the best deal possible. Far play to him that's what the vast vast majority of us do when getting a job. The only difference is the amounts involved.

It's RTE management that agreed to pay him and a whole host of other presenters amounts the vast majority of people knew/know that they were not worth it. RT had already taken a pay cut as there was pressure on to reduce salaries of high earners at the company. That fact that they covered up RT salary in this environment was a massive error. Because RT never called out this cover up he lost his job and we see the abuse some people feel entitled to spew.

There's the thing could sort of understand the abuse here(it's boards not Twitter) if it was targeted at RTE management but it's not. Even worse we have people taken the RTE line that RT should really cover up RTEs mistake by paying back the 150k and are now accusing him of stealing it(yes there are actually posts in this thread to this effect). This just let's RTE off the hook and ensures it will happen again in future while everyone is obsessed about a former presenter.

RT is gone from RTE. If he returns to RTE the company will be very different. How posting hate about the guy helps RTE to be more accountable and public broadcasting in general is beyond me. It says more about the posters in question than RT and worse let's RTE off the hook.

There’s no question some people just don’t like Ryan and don’t want to recognise his considerable talent and work ethic which saw him make a lot of money.

The fact a major UK network has taken him on just a few months after a disastrous end to his RTE career is incontrovertible proof of his worth, but some people still argue otherwise.

Bregudgery is still hindering Ireland.

I agree and disagree, I think it works both ways. RTÉ's whole attitude has been we are deserving of this money, it was never we will consider how to use it better to have the audience on side. RTÉ had as much chance to reform internally as successive governments had to reform externally. The minister moved the in 2021 moving the NSO to the NCH, RTÉ were bother waited until 2022. Then when they did have a saving of 8m they blew it all way. IMO the minister should be fuming with RTÉ, rather she simply says pay them the money. They are laughing in her face.

I have always largely targeted my anger at the Executive board and the board of RTÉ. They make the decision, but as you as RT made the mistake of not ensuring the right figure were announced. His agent should never have agreed to the 2nd contract the way it was outlined, if RT knew about the methods of transactions he should have said something there also. But RTÉ's management is a joke. Imagine that Dee Forbes spent her time worrying how it would look if she overpaid her "Talent".

your the greatest wind up merchant on this thread. If I get a ban for making this statement so be it. The man was a nepo baby. Was mediocre. Was pampered and indulged. He was no Pat Kenny. No Gay Byrne and as much as I hate to say it no Gerry Ryan. He was as bland as cauliflower. You can peddle the NKM copy they send you over to post here. But all that is makey up stuff.

No!!!! I will not have that. That is a ridiculous thing to say!

Cauliflower is lovely and can be made into delicious interesting dishes.

Makes you fart, though 😀

Tubs is a horrible, disingenous, arrogant person but what's more unforgivable is that he is rubbish at his job. He has no charm, no real intelligence (beyond lining his own pockets and that seems to be his agent's achievement), and he's the least suited person I've ever seen presenting radio and TV shows. He is actually repulsive as a presenter and DJ. He could only succeed in a nepotistic shithole like Dublin 4 and RTE, where all the mediocre and the family members come to get paid. He is not in the big time now in London, he's a glorified student radio DJ, and he's a complete nobody over there. But this is where he should always have been, on a crappy show at a crappy time, spinning discs and nobody knows his name. That's his level. But because his granddaddy founded RTE, he's given lucrative opportunities here that he is in no way suitable for. I hope it all blows up in his smug face and you better **** believe that it is begrudgery on my part. I hope he gets a good happy slapping in London :)

Thanks for the correction.

Regards...jmcc

And it was all done this way to funnel money to Tubridy under the radar without declaring it as part of his income, even though it was in reality monies coming from RTE to him.

Ye but that was only ever in context of keeping his job. Maybe I'm very cynical but it's something I never put weight in. The minute he lost his job the was never going to repay the 150k or depending on his exact financial circumstances may not even be in a position to repay it.

If he really didn't want the Renault money he'd never have agreed to it in the first place never mind the messy payment structure that was around it. He earned that 150k fair and square. Fortunately for him the RTE team negotiating completely underestimated their bargaining power. The fact that he was prepared to work for RTE at effectively 20k a year tells you a lot about how badly RTE messed up.

In a perfect world without consequences I wouldn't have RT pay the 150k back I'd have the people on the RTE side who agreed to pay RT the money and covered it up pay it back. It was their job to run RTE and remember they knew there was a lot of public scrutiny around presenter salaries. With this context I find it hard to understand their decisions as it should have been obvious the firestorm that would occur if this stuff ever became public.

At this stage the 150k is gone and people responsible are RTE management. And personally the 150k is small change when you look at the amounts RTE have arguably overpaid people like RT, Joe Duffy etc over the years. You are probably taking about amounts in the millions of money wasted by RTE due to their incompetence negotiating with high profile staff.

RTE are just like the civil service, the HSE etc. They don't want any meaningful change because a lot of people there are on the gravy train for life: why would they mess with that? Occasionally there will be some scandal that requires a public charade promising change, but it all goes back to how it was before eventually; they'll just hide things better. Tubridy is just the poster-boy for this RTE scandal, but you can be sure there are a lot of people behind him making lots of money for nothing and we'll never even know their names. Tubs is also an old-fashioned Fianna Failer; as corrupt as Charlie, Albert and Bertie and probably views it like he's entitled to everything he's gotten. It's in his DNA.

With regards to Tubs star power, hilarious that he was paid so much to keep him in Ireland because we didn't want him poached abroad. Now he has gone, on **** money, in a **** timeslot on a **** radio station. He didn't exactly get Graham Norton's chatshow, or Newsnight, did he? Or a prime time slot on radio 1 or 2! They'll keep trying to spin it like he's "made it" but you can't bullshit a bullshitter Ryan. No UK agents trying to snap him up either. Still needs his Del Boy agent to keep the hustle going.