Ryan Tubridy ; Has he paid back the Irish Tax Payer ?

Still not paid back. And his current actions have now cost RTE (and tax payers) an additional €100,000

It's now 2 years since he said he would "obviously" pay back the money

Ryan Tubridy reveals ‘greatest fatality’ in RTÉ exit and how new life changed him  - RSVP Live

Great interview by Tubs. He is ready to move on and "put that episode in the rear-view mirror" (while holding on to the money). He calls it a "kerfuffle" while also acknowledging that he has "an ego the size of Mount Rushmore.”

Interesting comment. I'm not sure he was 'always' hated. I think we saw him as a talentless gnome who got where he got through connections which is a typical Irish story. How RTE saw fit to pay him the salary he commanded amazes me. How he got the LLS is even more extraordinary. There's more charm and personality in a piece of wood.

At least Pat Kenny was excellent on radio and on tv re current affairs. Chat shows were never his strength due to lack of charisma. He got a gig at another Irish station because he was in general an excellent broadcaster. Tubridy is fluff. There's more substance in candy floss.

His most egregious sins for me came during covid. We're all in this together as work colleagues took pay cuts and he helped himself to monies he never 'earned due to work never done/completed. His lack of self awareness is stunning. But then that comes with circle he comes from where your entitled to be looked after etc.

We used to have people of the calibre of Olivia O'Leary, John Bowman, Gay Byrne, Mike Murphy and Brian O'Farrell. My how standards at RTE have crashed.

YAWN

The usual types commenting.

Do you really think

1. He reads boards
2. He gives a rats ass how your type think

Tubs was paid the package that he & his agent agreed with RTE.

As long as Revenue is happy with the deal he is in the clear.

Tubs has absolutely no obligation to repay any money.

The wolf pack should chase recovery from the eejits in RTE who agreed the pay deal, i.e. Dee Forbes & Co.

Strawman nonsense. He isnt a rapist so anything he does is ok?

As for very well liked... actual evidence suggests otherwise as below.

If you turn up for work and openly lie to to the people you work with day to day about a fake pay cut, you are amoral and out for whatever money you can get.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0623/1390808-rte-unions/

Not just people who worked with him. I've met him a few times and found him very friendly and genuine. Not at all what I expected. None of which means he was right to accept (or hold onto) that money, but yeah, he's not some kind of monster. And far from the only person who benefited disproportionately from working with RTE.

Some people are just inherently very angry and a bit weird. He's just the current object of their ire.

Apologies, you are right, he waived his right to 120k. Much easier to waive that than to pay back the, contractually obliged payment of 150k, since he wasn’t employed by them.

The tax paid on it, along with whatever pension contributions he might have made from it, would have had to be undone and that would be a headache for RTÉ.

After tax, he’d have taken home less than 120k, even with the most creative accountants on side.

Yes, the attitide expressed in your post was a perfect example of what I was referring to.