RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I think Ryan Andrews' possible needs to keep schtum.

There are 4 types of actors "Grifter", "Lucky", "Talented" and "Waiting staff/Unemployed", I will let you all decide where Fair City actors appear in this list.

Ryan doesn't say how much he is paid, IMO the reporters should ask after all he is offering up this information, and if he doesn't want to divulge his wage then the article should state that.

Ryan character in Fair City (for those of you that don't watch) is one of the main characters. This means he's earning between 80k and 105k a year for 30 weeks work. This is a very generous wage.

The article says that he defends their wage by saying "it's not a level playing field for everyone at the station and what can seem like a high daily rate doesn't always amount to earning a fortune in the long run."

He says his co-stars in the series "can make less than the minimum wage for their work" but that is is "over a season." and he goes on to say "Actors on Fair City don't work 52 weeks a year so it is different" ... Yes Ryan it is different because that the type of job acting is many of your co-stars are "jobbing" actors and for most people who work in minimum wage jobs they have to work 48 weeks across the "season", many even do over time to top up their earnings.

"Some people only work 10 or 15 weeks. There can be a misconception" What misconception that for a 10 or 15 week run your not earning 40k a year, and you then get to work in another job during the other 42 weeks of the year.

The article then says "Away from his role on Fair City Ryan also runs his own acting school and is gearing up to star in the panto at the Olympia Theatre."

So Ryan as a Jobbing actor you get to

1. Get a cushy number on a soap opera, with a 30 week run
2. In your spare time run an acting school
3. When you not in your "day job" you get paid to be in a Panto!

Seems to me you can do very well out of fair city and really you should keep schtum.

Dave Fanning will interview him, on Ryan career after he dies Dave has written his views : -

"Ryan... ryan wasn't the type to get to grips with an interview like Gay Byrne, I mean you really cannot call him Gay Byrne, yeah he presented the late late show, but he let his career go, Gay Byrne was take for a ride by his accountant in the 80s, what did he do he asked for more money, Ryan asked for more money and never took a pay cut. He also wasn't all that good on the Radio, I mean he was no Gerry Ryan... I am not saying he couldn't have been Gerry Ryan but look at the listernship figure, fell over on 2FM, I think what Ryan will be known for is being really nervous when interviewing some stars, like I have interview stars for "The Movie Show" and for radio and I never let them get a word in, he seemed to let them bully him at times. I mean Ryan what can I say about Ryan, he wasn't Pat Kenny, I mean Pat Kenny could chew Ryan Turbriby up."

Dave Fanning sounds bitter. Not displaced to be honest.

Astute. Say what you like about Dave Fanning, he has interviewed probably more very famous film stars and musicians than most of RTE's presenters put together and I never saw an interview where he was in awe of them. He was always very well prepped, knew his brief, had shedloads of research and plain old background knowledge to call on and he asked a lot of interesting questions. Fanning is curious and a real journalist, actually a far better option for the LLS after Pat Kenny than Tubridy ever was.

Ryan's choices for his six favourite songs:

• Money Money Money by ABBA
• Mo Money Mo Problems by Notorious BIG
• I Need a Dollar by Aloe Blacc
• Taxman by The Beatles
• Free Money by Patti Smith
• Money's too tight (too mention) by Simply Red

When does he start his radio show?

Ryan's Favourite Beatles songs;

And Your Bird Won't Sing

Toyman

While Noel Kelly Gently Weeps

With a Little Help from Fianna Fail

You're Going to Lose that Cushy Number

You've Got to Hide Your Money Away

Hand in Glove (feat.Noel Kelly)

He does but its been a show on VMTV for about 5 years, Dave hasn't done any TV work for RTÉ in a while. Is he still on RTÉ GOLD? The series is co-funded by the CnaM (aka BAI aka they get some of the license fee mullah to produce it).

Fanning doesn't work for RTE. Or Virgin Media.

He works for Bebbak Ltd,, the production company he founded with his wife Ursula Courtney, though which he is contracted separately to RTE and Virgin Media. A bit like the way a plumber could do work on your house and a neighbour's house.

Edit: It should also be noted that Fanning at Whelan's received €285,000.00 in funding from the BAI's Sound & Vision 4 fund in 2021, which is funded by the TV Licence fee. Those who withhold their payment of the TV licence should remember that it's not just RTE that they're attempting to "defund", but quality programming on independent channels too.

(Link to PDF: https://www.bai.ie/ga/media/sites/3/dlm_uploads/2021/05/SV4Round38FundedProjects_AOB.pdf)

Me either. If someone had told me 12 months ago, I'd be eagerly awaiting Tub's first radio show after Xmas 2023, I'd have died laughing. Funny old world!

They're only the band U2 could have been :)