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

No, the 120k was a payment due on the completion of his contract. It wasn’t some barter account swivel by RTÉ.

It came to light after the Grant Thornton audit, the one that cleared Ryan of any wrongdoing and laid the fault, squarely, with RTÉ.

So when Tubridy was in front of PAC and the nation, he was unaware that was a feature of his contract?

Can you find me the line in the Grant Thornton report which establishes that?

Because otherwise you are just reinforcing the point, it was another contrivance and connivance between Tubridy and RTE to under represent his earnings and establishes he is willing to lie to the Oireachtas and the public to feather his own nest.

This really a pathetic response and sums up how weak your actual argument is.

Just to clear Joe Duffy very much did the same thing as Tubridy, so did Pat Kenny, so did Gay Byrne. I can keep going if you want. Pick practically any high profile presenter at RTE over the last half century plus. They all negotiated completely inflated salaries due to a weak RTE management. If Tubridy screwed over his colleagues the aforementioned people are way way ahead of him in that race.

For a long time there was no legal competition on radio, and no competition on TV until the late nineties with TV3, within Ireland anyway. It's only been in the last decade or so with the rise of podcasts and YouTube channels that RTE has faced proper home grown competition. And ironically RTE started cutting salaries during this period. That tells it's own story about how high profile presenters screwed over the public some of whom people deify and talk as presidential material.

Good night and best of luck with your crusade. It will make f all difference but if it makes you feel good all power to you.

It may have cleared Tubridy of a legal wrongdoing. Tubridy lost the court of public opinion and the moral argument. He took money for work not done under the pretense of a pay cut and garnered kudos for doing so under a banner of 'we are all in it together' while pocketing thousands in top up payments. He needs to address that before bring accepted in any public role in ireland in the future

To me this looks like the opposite, that there's a few people with some kind of weird personal obsession with a celebrity. Like who cares what he got paid really? Calling him a thief is just false, it has a legal definition, he is not a thief, he did not steal, these are facts not opinions. In terms of corruption, I mean honestly 150k?, that's like an expense report for some of our politicians. He wasn't even a public representative, he was a private contractor, extracting money for services. He doesn't owe anyone an explanation, we didn't vote for him. It's obsessive.

I think he should be reinstated in RTE. the station is not the same since he left.

There's been little or no change in ratings since he left… if anything the likes of Callan have done well to hold or increase the audience for the time slot on radio. And on TV you'd be hard pressed to find any objective commentator that would say Kielty isn't doing at least as well as Tubridy was.

'Like who cares what he got paid really?'

Considering part of his salary is the tax that we all pay I very much care and so should you.

Accountability and doing the right thing matters ffs.

Grand so, can you point us to where when he declared he would pay the money back he added the clause… provided he was still employed there

Should be easy for you to find.

That's not a quote of what he said. That's a one liner from an Irish Times journalist without any direct citation.

This is what I find when I look at his actual statement:

“If that work is not called upon to be done, of course the money goes back”.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41181586.html

Do you have an actual quote backing up your claim?

It's pretty obvious Tubridy's actual words trumps a second hand dissemination\summary by a journalist.
Objectively so.
And I suggest if the positions were reversed you would argue likewise, that the actual words of the person are key - and you are only arguing the contrary because of a partisan position on this topic.

Especially so as the comment he made was as part of sworn public testimony to the Oireachtas.

He added no caveats about continued employment with RTE, only that if the work was not called upon to be done.
And you will see below, "If I do go back to RTE…" it was not assumed he would be.

And his comments re: whole new order, as can be seen in the Irish Independent don't relate to repaying the money but about transparency in his contract.

"You know, if I do go back to RTÉ, which I hope to, it'll be in a whole new world order. And that's why I said today that I'd love to be part of that catharsis for the place, because it's a great old place….
He added that “if I was to sign another contract, I'd put it out in the public straightaway - no messing, no three-year carry-on… I'd be part and parcel of the new process, to build trust with my colleagues and the listeners - no viewers any more, but listeners anyway."

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ryan-tubridys-day-in-the-dock-presenter-fights-back-with-new-claims-about-rte-offers-to-repay-money-and-a-plea-for-his-job/a447913798.html

What are you saying, that I'm partisan and you aren't? 🙄

He had no legal obligation to return the €150K but offered to do so in the context of a new open beginning at RTE in which he was willing to play his part. A couple of weeks later the DG took umbrage at some interview Tubridy gave and abruptly ended the new contract negotiations. Even the DG recognised that his decision would mean that Tubridy wouldn't feel obliged to return money he was legally entitled to retain.

As regards the radio criticism in today's IT clearly Tubridy is doing fine but whether RTE is is questionable.

"What is needed to turn things around at RTÉ? Heads on plates, according to the staff engagement survey taken in the news department in May of this year.

Certain things look positive, to be sure, with two-thirds of respondents saying they were proud to work for the State broadcaster, and more than 70 per cent believing they know what they’re supposed to do and why they’re supposed to be doing it (“I know what I need to do to be successful in my role” and “I know how my work contributes to the goals of RTÉ” respectively).

Other indicators in the poll answered by 202 staff members are, however, decidedly negative. Are resources being deployed effectively towards RTÉ’s goals? Only one in 10 said yes. Are the right people rewarded? A mere 8 per cent said yes.

And most alarming was the response when they were asked whether they agreed with the statement: “When it is clear someone is not delivering in their role, we do something about it.” Only one in 20 respondents said yes."

The show mustn’t go on for RTÉ underperformers, say RTÉ news staff – The Irish Times

You keep emphasising 'it was said at an Oireactas committee' as if that makes it some kind of legal obligation under every circumstance.

Yeah he said he would and he hasn't. He's moved on since, time the haters did likewise.

You're a true 'hater' I'll give you that.

But this thread is basically a I hate Ryan Tubridy thread. It's as simple as that.

Tubridy isn't paying back the 150k that he earned legally. He made a statement at an Oireachtas hearing that has zero legal weight. None of the people here obsessed with Tubridy can show any legal obligation to return the 150k.

So he won't return the 150k (that he has no reason/obligation to) and the only people who are suffering are those obsessed with the man. RTE has way way bigger fish to fry as it tries to survive.

People are free to hate on Tubridy (ignoring the 150k hes not exactly the most likeable person)but let's not pretend it's anything else at this stage.