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

Surely 2FM would use the same source or news bulletin as RTE radio or whatever other RTE radio stations run the news bulletins. We see this with stations that are all under the same umberella like Newstalk all sharing the same bulletins.

Wireless set of Radio stations use Newstalk national news at night also. (Ironically this started when UTV Ireland had set up their own national news studio for TV!).

RTÉ just came up with a fanciful reason to drop News on 2FM. Technically, as was once pointed out on boards, when RTÉ were bragging that 2FM were not in receipt of licence fee funding, 2FM news was getting licence fee funding as it came from the RTÉ News department, so therefore RTÉ 2FM did get some licence fee funding, but nothing like the amounts given over the last few years.

I don't really understand why the Sports reader can't also read the news.

What exactly was this NUJ issue? Was it about the prospect of sportscasters being made redundant?

By the way, I never heard of Chris Cary until you mentioned him. In 1998, he was jailed in Britain for a scam.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ex-pirate-radio-chief-jailed-for-30m-sky-card-scam/26188838.html

There's a Wikipedia page about him under his alias 'Spangles Muldoon'. He died of a stroke in 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spangles_Muldoon

Here's a Hot Press obituary.

https://www.hotpress.com/music/chris-cary-passes-away-4480623

On RTÉ's news break it was extend until today, coming from Easter Weekend, a massive news story north of the border breaks and RTÉ are on holidays until today! Crazy stuff.

https://goss.ie/featured/this-is-why-bryan-dobson-decided-to-leave-rte-375423

Yeah sure it is Brian. It amazes me that they did ask about the controversy surrounding RTÉ, no one will even remember him that well.

For legal reasons there's a limit to what can be said about that story and so RTÉ's 'news break' had no impact on their coverage of that story. RTÉ have to conserve their resources so they can cover elections and referenda sufficiently.

Leader of the DUP resigns. RTÉ reports is due to an arrested due to alleged historical sexual offences.

There is really nothing after this in relation to his resignation as party leader. The DUP are the second largest political party north of the boarder, they are key to Stormont. RTÉ should be covering the political fallout of the departure.

It is a great pity that Leo didn't resign at a weekend, so that everyone could defend RTÉ news coverage.

RTÉ had discussion of the fallout on its radio and TV news programmes. No political ramifications have happened in NI so far. So it wouldn't carry as much weight as the death of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, which was during the summer break but still meant an hour-long Six-One and a Prime Time special.

RTE's afternoon does indeed take a break over the summer and to replace it they have the best of The Afternoon show from the season that just finished.

Did you read the article?

That's expenses over FIVE years.

Frankly I see very little wrong with the figures.

Example of Dee Forbes - it's less than €250 a month.

I would be higher than that myself on company card for similar items. Eg Staff member leaving/ having a baby / getting married - all = flowers+ a gift.

Supplier coming over from UK or Germany, I'd take him to dinner. Easy €150.

Total tabloid nonsense

If it was an annual spend, there'd be a story. But this is a 5 years accumulation to attempt to create a story

Do you work in the public sector? Because if you do, and you’re spending public money in the way you say you are, the C&AG will want to have a word

There are two articles.

Regards…jmcc

Yeah so the rest of us we treat others as people on our own dime. Regular people can't expense gifts , cards, flowers to work colleagues. Not sure why those regular people should be paying TV license so that RTE staff can do that with public money.

It's small yes, but public bodies need to be accountable and fair, you can't collect money off tax payers to then treat yourself nicer than those taxpayers do.

Presumably, Forbes was excessively priveledged and rewarded grotesque truckloads of public money due to her percieved resolve, capability and ability to handle pressure.

Yet, when the time came to answer for her immorality she suddenly became a feeble wretch, unable to defend herself in public.

Is there a single person in the country who believes she is not pretending to be sick?