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

Tubridy doesn't owe the 'Irish tax payer' anything. If you can show where he does please do.

He said he repay the money in the context of him staying at RTE which obviously hasn't happened. So no he didn't lie. Obviously his statement can be taken out of context. But that just proves my point that some people take perverse enjoyment hating on someone due to some warped parasocial relationship that perceive to have with some media personalities.

Also what Tubridy said to the Dail Committee has no legal bearing and that was reinforced by a referendum where people refused to give Dail committees that status/powers. He earned his money fair and square(if you can show otherwise the RTE and Garda I would be very interested). None of this stuff will do anything to change his mind only the opposite, so nothing here is about getting the 150k back.

He lost his job and moved on. RTE is still in chaos.

Again if you get kicks from hating on Tubridy fair enough but don't pretend it's anything nobler than that.

I'm not really sure 'the public' are that inclined against Tubridy. The haters will always hate but the vast majority have moved on or never bought the Dee Forbes RTE deflection strategy. Did she forego her exit package or even appear before an Oireachtas Committee?

RTE still refuses to disclose the details of exit packages paid to former executives.

RTÉ refuses to release Dee Forbes' contract despite request from PAC

53% if the Irish public in a poll this year said Tubridy should pay the money,

Must be a lot of 'haters' out there, or you know, if it wasn't obvious to anyone paying attention - that's desperate drivel.

Thats a lot of waffle trying to cover up that you made a claim you pulled out of nowhere about the view of the 'vast majority' ... and the poll completely discredits that.

Audience figures showing RTE doing at least as well with new presenters and Tubridy treading water elsewhere.

Makes the drivel about 'haters' look even more desperate. But I suppose when Tubridys own words discredit your position, and a poll showing the majority of the Irish people still think he should pay it back - all you have left to defend your position with is nonsense like that.

You claimed that… "the vast majority have moved on."

You stated that based on absolutely nothing.

Contradicted by a poll finding from this year.

Now, while polls aren't 100% reliable it's a helluva lot more reliable to a situation versus whatever claim you just pulled out of thin air.
And the last refuge of someone peddling a baseless claim contradicted by some actual findings is to try to rubbish polls in general. More desperate deflections… how does a question in the poll about Joe Duffy alter anything that was asked about Tubridy?

What does an RTE exit poll have to do with the Tubridy poll? Nothing.
And even then, it is just another desperate deflection, the exit poll got each party's vote correct to within 2%.
How does that help your case against the Tubridy poll which had 53% v 31% saying he should pay the money back?
It doesn't. It's a clear margin. If it was a 51-49 split maybe, but this isn't even very good deflection.

No matter how much you desperately try to spin against actual facts - your claims are unreliable and without foundation.

There's a general RTE thread for that. And you'll find a massive overlap in the same posters hammering Tubridy also there critical of RTE.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057868730/dee-forbes-banging-the-rte-tv-licence-drum-again-60m-uncollected-fee-poll-not-working-pl-ignore#latest

Not sure who you are describing with that post. Must be this poster CyclistTourist who posted this yesterday:

Never bought the Dee Forbes RTE deflection strategy. Did she forego her exit package or even appear before an Oireachtas Committee? RTE still refuses to disclose the details of exit packages paid to former executives.

Can we take the waiving of Ryan’s 120k contract completion payment into account here? I mean, would he have gotten that much after tax from the 150k?