Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

Could someone who understands a bit of law explain to me how a decision made by an lone individual to award an employee a 400k golden handshake , when that decision should only be made by a board, not be considered illegal?

Especially when it's taxpayers/public money she spent.

Surely there has to be rules in place to stop such things happening, otherwise people who are friends could just had each other massive sums of money with no comeback?

Any wonder she is feigning sickness.

We've a DEI group in work and they are mad to get a much much greater number of females in senior management. One of the HR managers said the need for diversity will ensure better decisions being made and sounder business. I will quote one of the dozies she came out with "We all remember it was the [u]Lehman Brothers [/u]that caused such unreasonable damage".

It seems females are just as good at "jobs for the boys", Galway tenting and top notch cute hoorism as the grey, pale and stale suits we were used to.

Perfect equality.

His "following" was purely due to Radio1 listeners resistance to changing the dial, they'll listen to whatever they put out.

The mystery is why the show was syndicated. The survey however is from a thousand people that have listened to his show once or more.

I'd say that was part of the deal. If Noel Kelly was able to say 'well, he gets this many listeners back in Ireland' so syndicating it would be worth more value to the radio station in the UK. Thus after a year or two, contract negotiations would lead to a bigger salary for Ryan.

That doesn't seem to have panned out though.

He has a point. Being caused stress as a reason for not being accountable is a slippery slope.

Unless she's hospitalised or incapacitated she can surely at least write or speak into a phone.

He isn't the only one over the last few days - Ivan Yates was querying on his podcast as to why non of the media (including RTE) have any interest in finding out where she is and perhaps doorstepping her with a few questions.

Those in power in RTE must have known that when the Tubridy scandal broke in June that it would dominate the headlines. However, I also suspect that they assumed that it would be a short-lived scandal like so many others in Ireland and would have been out of the news by the time the Summer holiday period kicked off in August. By any standards, it's unusual that RTE is still front page news over severn months later and this is where the medical excuses are wearing very thin.

Does any of this matter to Dee Forbes though? She isn't on sick leave from RTE and isn't dependent on them for any income. Her reputation can't be recovered at this stage so she has nothing else to gain from going before PAC or any similar forum.

There has been a slew of appointments from outside the state at a very high level in recent years. The usual excuse is that we don't have enough talent here because the pool is too small, or alternately that the talent here is compromised in some way.

Quite a number of these appointments have been dis-appointments. The old trope about paying peanuts and getting monkeys isn't an apt one here either, as the amounts paid in many cases have been mouth-watering - but many of these people we have got are worse than monkeys.

I wonder if the real probelm is something else - maybe that the pool of talent in Ireland has been artificially limited by considering only people who are well-connected to one of the political parties?

Nice to be able to agree with O'Toole for once.

He has perhaps unintentionally identified what is very often at the heart of the so-called modern "woke" agenda - an attempt to impede investigation of strange or unusual or worrying phenomena, which we have seen used by various groups from Zionists to trans and many more in between in recent years, going from "I'm not well" and "You're upsetting me" to "You're hurting me" when clearly there is some other issue altogether at hand.

Ok? Any examples?

How can Breda not be done for something like collusion ? Given her position, she knew it wasn’t a genuine redundancy.