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

Its nothing new. Excerpts from a book Shane Ross has out about RTE "Saints Scholars and Scandals."

Is Dee back to full health yet?

How very dare you suggest she is not ill - both her doctor and legal team have confirmed separately she is too ill to face questioning from an Oireachtas Committee almost 3 years after the scandal broke. It clearly must be a very serious illness to last this long.

That this it seems now permanent illness fell upon her just a few short weeks after she was suspended from her role in RTÉ is of course just a coincidence, and to suggest otherwise is both unfounded and malicious. Just like it was a coincidence that completely out of nowhere The Toyman announced he was leaving his lucrative hosting gig of The Late Late Show 9 days after the deal struck between Noel Kelly and Forbes was discovered in an internal audit.

Forbes’ sole statement at the time states that many of the wider executive were aware of the deal, those members collectively all - coincidentally - agree that none of them knew anything about it. I’m sure those same executives would also collectively wish Ms. Forbes a speedy recovery so this matter could be cleared up and the record set straight…..

Spare a thought too for Jim Jennings who also coincidentally was struck down by a mystery illness and remains too ill to this day to testify. He was well enough to surface for at least one retirement drinks session last summer but unfortunately this was on a Friday evening and not when the Oireachtas were sitting. I’m sure however he will be in touch with them to offer his side of events as one would expect from someone so generously rewarded from the public purse for decades.

It be fair I don't know if I'm alone in thinking but Tubs got a bit of respect from me for not weaseling away from the PAC.

He did "own it" to an extent.

The salary of D4bres and BK4 is €250K before pension prevision, it is about €320K after pension prevision and the car allowance. (See the annual reports).

from the 2022 annual report for D4bres

AFAIK: She had gone on Annual leave as she was winding down in the role, indeed she had a going away do with a few people from RTÉ the Friday before the scandal broke, she was then suspended (I don't know if this was without pay, but I argue it was not, and I am fairly sure she possibly was paid until the end of her contract), but she received no compensation on her resignation that I am aware off, but happy to be proven wrong, but it that would just further cement my view that RTÉ is a failed organization.

The pay packet includes her pension. but, as I say I take everything that RTÉ with a pinch of salt.

The same could be said of KB4 when he took on the role of Deputy DG back before D4rbes, indeed he'd no connection to Ireland.

I won't defend her appointment, and never did.

Why? Do you think he did a good job as Deputy DG, he left when he wasn't given the role of DG, if he felt he had something to give Irish broadcasting surely he should have stayed until the position was made available again, it was only a 7 year wait. IMO neither are suitable in the role that has nothing do with where they spent their careers or childhoods.

From today’s Indo. The Toyman really needs to make up his mind.

He spent two+ years name dropping and telling us how successful he was was playing senior hurling in London, then went on a coordinated “please take me back” campaign earlier this year, then told us over the last few weeks how much he was enjoying being his own boss and enjoying being free from the restraints of the formats of RTÉ and of course telling us how many wonderful jobs he has in London and Dublin and wherever the LMFM show is pre-recorded from …, now it seems he wants to come back to RTÉ again. The desperation is embarrassing tbh.

You can get it on the interweb.
Sunday afternoon is a bit of a graveyard time slot though. I have it one listen and it wasn’t exactly riveting so I haven’t been back.

Intriguingly however I haven’t been able to find a single review for the new show online - it’s like it and he almost don’t exist or matter in the eyes of the UK press.