RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

In previous advertisement it mentioned hours being a lot lower- 20 hours - 3 days a week -definitely not 30 hours- making it about 60 euro per hour

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-announces-its-hiring-fair-city-photographer-for-60k-a-year-after-dgs-shock-over-reported-80k-bill/a2030009355.html#:~:text=The%20successful%20candidate%20will%20work,of%20three%20days%20per%20week.

It really is amazing what an inflated ego will do to a person.

All Ryan had to do was admit to what he did. "Sorry I took the sneaky topup and i'll give that money to a worthy charity".

He hadn't done anything illegal, he'd have gotten away with it. Anyone with a lick of sense and humility would have realised the game was up. Even at the very end when he was being offered the 170k Plan B on the radio that he clearly wanted so desperately. All he had to do was absolutely nothing. But his ego wouldn't let him.

As an aside I just got stung for the TV license the other day having avoided it for years behind an apartment complex door. Bit grim considering the recent scandal. But at least it won't be going to Tubs' overfilled pockets. So I can console myself with that.

If Tubridy had taken €10m from his company would he not have paid nearly €5m in Tax, PRSI and USC?

How much do you think he could have taken, to buy a house, without paying Tax, PRSI and USC?

Not sure if it was of much value though, I mean we all know them Kerry lads are cute hoors. Would you trust their dodgy advice? I'd be treating Dáithi's spheel the same as you'd hear from a Killarney Jarvy.

For those wondering what Tubridy is on at Virgin; we have been told it's between £70k and £100k. Neither Tubridy, nor Noel Kelly have confirmed/denied this.

If he was on the same wages in Virgin as RTE, or if he was on more, you can best your last cent that we'd have been told about this a dozen times a day over the past week by the usual suspects. So my betting is that he's on the £70-£100,000 scale.

He was on Newstalk about it last week, can he still promote it elsewhere?

Ye think that presenting a three hour show will be three times the work the RTE show was, but it won’t be.

That show leaned very heavily on Ryan and his observations, this next one will be different. His team will be a bigger factor.

The begrudgery is a bit disappointing.

Finally, if you took Patrick’s salary and added 100k to it, you’d end up with about what Ryan was being paid.

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Wrong thread.....

If he's getting something up on £100K he should be fine, he doesn't have a lavish lifestyle afawk, kids are grown up

My understanding is he's basically just a DJ though, and most of the music has to come from the station playlist. So quite possibly less work in practice, certainly less that requires much thought.

Don't see why this should be. Virgin is the kind of background wallpaper station that shops, cafes etc. leave on all day. Unless listeners find him actively obnoxious he's unlikely to get large numbers switching off. Bland & inoffensive is just what the doctor ordered for this sort of gig.

Well I'm sure that it will come as a relief to many people that Ryan's profound and intelligent "observations" may be a thing of the past. Now he is just a poorly paid, record-spinning monkey. Intriguing! Sure if he's short of a few bob for the rent I'm sure you'd be willing to help your messiah out Sunny 😜

Toy show this week. I might actually watch for the first time in years because Kielty comes across as somebody with a decent personality who can interact with people and children in a normal, friendly way rather than the self-serving manchild that stunk up the show for the past 15 years. Having said that if it's full of odious, spoiled south Dublin brats, I'm out before the first break!

250,000 + 100,000 does not make 500,000+. TBH I think PK is over paid and I think its a sweetheart deal.

Post of the thread, imo.