RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

And this post sums up the culture that saw RT and many other presenters overpaid for decades.

Many of his colleagues were complicit in the payment practices ie his fellow presenters and RTE management for starters.

But let's focus all the money and attention on the face of RTE and ignore everyone else behind the scenes. RTE were as desperate to "save face" by keeping people like RT happy they forgot their job was to run RTE. The hatred here towards RT is just the other side of the coin to RTEs approach to presenters. It just let's RTE off the hook and ensures this scandal will happen again in the future.

Again the fact RT and a whole host of RTE presenters were very highly paid is very old news. The fact it was the time slot that was the major factor on listenership is again old news. If people had cared as much about this pay 10/20 plus years ago this scandal would never have happened. But let's ignore the people responsible for the mess ie RTE management and the RTE culture as a whole. How posting hate about RT changes this is beyond me.

This fact seems to be forgotten as well…. The current outrageous salaries being enjoyed by the stars was a lot lot higher a few years ago…..

I don’t know how far back figures go, but anyone any idea what he would have grossed over the 14 years or so he was hosting the LLS? (What was ‘declared’ anyway!)

Pat Kenny on 951k in 2008.

We all partied.

Jesus with a bit o nepotism and neck like a jockeys bollocks you could be set up for life.

And yet strange in PAC etc he never mentioned that angle. He said he'd repay it. He could have easily presented it along those lines. Makes me wonder what was he trying to hide.

Mooney was big for awhile on RTÉ, there were a couple of years when he was a darling of the airwaves. Had a webcam in some bird’s nest in his garden.

Not sure what happened, one day he was gone except for a ‘Dawn Chorus’ show every now and then.

I'm sure he is still on a decent wedge of cash.

There was one of those "Who do you think you are?" genealogy programmes a few years ago with Tubridy. He was overjoyed to be distantly related to some minor English (Plantagenet?) courtier. Bloody oik! :) Danny Dyer is descended from real royalty.

Regards...jmcc

Pat Kenny left RTÉ in September 2013, now it was announce at the end of July, but lets give poor auld Pat the benefit of the doubt and say he was 8 months in RTÉ in 2013 91k a month (that exit fee helped his 2013 earnings), also with such a high paying job you'd think that RTÉ would have him on Gardening leave for at least 6 months, but it seems that he join Newstalk just a month after the announcement.

the only thing i'd disagree with in that post is the 'Maybe" before the print media.

Rest assured ,they were all at it, like hounds sitting around a table which groaned with rich pickings.

The way I understand it is that the ones that are contractors are set up as a limited company, so the company receives the fee from RTE, pays corporate tax on it? (15%?) and then the actual presenter is just an employee of their own company and probably pulling a very modest salary in order to pay as little tax as possible…. So I wouldn’t be surprised that the likes of Tubridy & Duffy are/were only earning about €50-€60k a year according to revenue… with the rest of the money going into the company accounts…

They can probably write off a lot of their expenses then as business costs and further reduce tax liabilities...

But I could be completely wrong on that...

Slightly OT but it would be interesting to know how Tubridy's contract with Virgin is structured?

Are they simply paying for a service from Ryan Tubridy limited? And he gets to keep most of the money again, or is he gonna be an actual employee of Virgin? And as they have Irish subsidiaries (and his show will be broadcast in Ireland) is he being contracted through an Irish entity to avoid HMRC? or is he a fully fledged PAYE employee working in The U.K.?

I'm sure Noel 'The Chocolate Man' Kelly will have wangled some sort of deal to ensure his man gets to keep most of the money....

If he is employed in Ireland but doesn't do any actual work while in Ireland, and stays outside the country for more than half of the year, he can avoid paying tax altogether...