RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Tubs will have to provide a return to revenue which will be public available. AFAIK many of these companies have 2 directors usually a spouce who also gets paid, they might even employ a PA.

I see RTÉ are looking for a still photographer, 12 stills across 2 shows, contracted for just one year at 50k or less.

In effect this will just be given to the current long term photographer.

RTÉ need to release the meetings emails that lead to this U turn.

Ah Sunny Sunny Sunny, I know we won't win you over to the Hate and honestly personally I really have no issue with Tubs or anyone doing well... however ... RTÉ were never in a position for these wages and RTÉ should never have considered keeping such a wonderful bigger hitter as Ryan Tubrity if these were his costs, rather they should have developed others, who might move on to great things either across the water over there or beyond in A-MERI-KAY.

The market was never here for them. We are, as RTÉ themselves suggest, too small a market, thus you develop people. When those people start asking for money beyond the market you let them know now is the time for them to spread their wings, and those others that you have developed takeover and move up in this market. If they don't want to spread their wings then they stay on Irish Market rates. RTÉ is not in a position to compete with the likes of the BBC (and they have said this on serval occasions).

But then there is this proof, for Pat and Ryan, that you seem to seek... that these wages were required to maintain them in their roles !

Where is this proof?

Pat Kenny TV career never really took of after TLLS, the frontline wasn't a success. Prime Time wasn't enough for his intellect. In the Round didn't even get 100,000 viewers on a Monday night for UTV Ireland (the figure that Doc Martin repeats were getting), his TV3/Virgin Media TV programmes well they couldn't compete and fell out of the radar, Pat's not been on TV since. And all of his replacements on "Today with..." on Radio 1 have maintained his audience.

Pat's success is in increasing the audience for Newstalk across the schedule, but this success has largely come to an end as Newstalk is now maintaining an audience (I'd argue that's due to them not reinvesting in the Lunchtime and afternoon spots), but look at Ivan Yeats old show the Hard Shoulder, kieran cuddihy is an non-entity in the extreme and he's retained Yeat's audience so far, I'd not be happy if I were Pat).

Where is Ryan's TV career going to take him, in Ireland RTÉ is the only Irish broadcaster that might take him via an Independent producer, and what type of programme, and why not give that programme to a new up and coming presenter.

I think we all need to turn around a wait to see how successful Tubs is before really making any comment on his future.

Your general point is correct, but the specifics need to be corrected to understand why a high net worth individual would get a mortgage.

No-one would have 10 million in the bank - it would lose you money hand over fist, and be a colossal financial risk.

Anyone with that kind of wealth would be investing it. Even a fairly safe spread across the stock exchange would get you a return of about 10% a year. And remember, that 10% keeps going - at that rate, your investment would double in just over 7 years.

A mortgage would cost you 3.5% to 4% at the moment.

So even leaving tax relief aside, it makes absolute financial sense not to use your capital to finance a house if you can afford the repayments from your wages, when it can make more money for you than you'll pay on mortgage interest. All while the house itself is an asset that is increasing in value too.

Far from being a "crap manager of money" as the other poster claimed, it would be a sign of a financially astute individual.

Tubridy only ever intended to repay the 150k if it was part of a contract renewal with RTE. This would have served two purposes. Getting him back on Radio1 in a yet another cushy, overpaid number AND allowing him to rehab his reputation by making a big song and dance about "doing the honourable thing"

Now that his own idiocy has cost him a return to the handiest job he will ever have, that money will never be seen again. If Tubridy had an ounce of decency, he would have written a large cheque to a charity of his choice AFTER his association with RTE ended. It's a significant wedge but to a man who has earned millions over the last decade, it would have been a shrewd and effective way of garnering a lot of public approval, further laying the blame at RTE's door and allowing him to come across as magnanimous.

There was never any doubt in my mind that that wouldn't happen. He is a greedy, small, entitled and petty individual. As his recent pronouncements about his previous employer have demonstrated. The employer that gave him a salary and a position in Irish society that he had absolutely no meritocratic right to have.

As another poster said, he is now finally doing what he should have been doing for the last 20 years. Working at a minor radio station, with a small market share, spinning disks and waffling shíte for 100k pa and glad to get it. Pity successive RTE DG's couldn't have had the gonads to put him where he belonged decades ago.

If he'd repaid the money to charity during the PAC hearings it would have gotten public goodwill back on his side to a large extent.

Would have made it harder for Bakhurst to not bring him back.

Or if he had kept schtum during the contract negotiations.

He'd be still on the cosy cushy number in RTE, on bigger bucks \ less hours \ travel than his new gig.

0.5/10 I don’t think you are even trying anymore really

That works out at about €80 per photo.

The previous was about €72 per photo.

RTÉ also dropped their still department, they would have some savings by employing stills photographers rather than indirectly when required. (as we see with this tender, which will most likely be picked up by the previous holder).

Is there a need for a stills photography or a stills department? This is really the question people are asking.

Has his contract with Virgin been made public?

We don’t, and won’t know Ryan’s pay under this deal, no doubt there will be attempts to downplay it.

But even if the 100k was correct, that’d be roughly what he was going to get from RTE per annum post the Late Late show. Patrick is on around €250k

Ryan is going to be fine financially, he still has the option of doing TV work in the UK.

It’s a huge credibility problem for Kevin, and it is likely to get worse if Ryan is well received by critics in the UK.