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

I’m glad you agree at least that The Toyman is the face of the scandal.

The Unions in RTE did a great job - everyone is over paid and under worked.

I don’t think the NKSFs will like him being compared to a Union Rep. That would be a frightfully “working class” descriptor to some of his fans on here.

Ireland 2026, where talent agents have fans. Who’d have thought, eh? 🤷‍♂️

Noel Kelly had no influence on RTE's accounting and ultimately how the invoices were recorded. Creating fictitious invoices and deceiving people into paying them is fraud and ultimately criminal. If it was criminal there would have been charges given how high profile the case has been. It's not Noel Kelly or any suppliers job to audit the accounting of their invoices send to RTE. It just another example of the culture in RTE.

To be honest I don't we are to far off in opinions overall TBH.

Tubs and Darcy are going to keep talking about it until people stop being interested about it and media companies stop paying them to talk about it. Which unfortunately is going to be a long time.

The para social relationship they developed with parts of their audience over their decades in Irish media doesn't go away just because they've left RTE. Remember you don't need much charisma to create a para social relationship with an audience. Any look at social media will tell you that.

Tubridy wasn't a 'worker'. He was being paid through his own company.

Union reps works for an entire class of worker.
Not a small bunch they try to promote in the media.

Go to a local union meeting and try this on, you'll be laughed out of the door, or worse.

it is a matter of record that he PROVIDED “dodgy” invoices to RTÉ, invoices that ultimately led to The Ryan Tubridy Pay Scandal being brought to public attention as well as other lapses of governance in RTÉ.

But he had no part in it apparently 🤷‍♂️

From rte.ie:

“RTÉ Investigates has learned that when initially asked about invoices labelled as consultancy fees, the former RTÉ Director-General Dee Forbes said they related to work done for RTÉ by Noel Kelly at a cost of more than €1,200 per hour.”

There’s lots more if you’d like to familiarise yourself a little more with the facts before wading it.

he must have bought that suit on one of Louis Copeland’s off days!

Tubridy has been called many things (one poster hilariously described him as being “money savvy” on here just this past week, this despite The Toyman not realising his RTÉ earning were overstated by €345,000 over a multi-year period and confessing he was just a simple soul who didn’t understand complicated matters like numbers at an Oireachtas Committee Hearing), but I don’t think anyone has ever described him as a “worker” - at least in the traditional sense of the word so to speak.

I'm watching the world cup on BBC and ITV1. I've a Sky dish and an old Sky HD box with an English viewing card. I don't watch Rté, but I heard Rté are now showing adverts during the Hydration Breaks.

What a bunch of brass neck b*****ds. Many of their viewers have paid their TV licence and shouldn't be subjected to this commercial money grab.

Even ITV wouldn't steep that low. Their pundits calling out Fox in the USA for showing adverts.

I don't see the problem, who's interested in seeing a buch of overpaid pussies drinking water?

That's was the deal, the North American's made a deal and wouldn't you make the same deal.

I was asked more than once to do things that I knew were dodgy. I declined. That option was also available to Mr. Kelly.

I don’t think Ms. O’Leary held a gun to Mr. Kelly’s head so to speak.

Was she treated really badly in front of the Oireachtas Committee? That’s a subjective viewpoint. What’s not subjective however is had she not been involved in a dodgy deal between Mr. Kelly and Dee Forbes then she wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be treated badly or other wet use because she wouldn’t have been there,

What these people seem to forget is that along with the outrageous salary and benefits and +1 junkets there comes responsibilities.

I’d also have to ask Mr. Bakhurst did he ever receive a bollicking of any sort in any role he was in? I doubt I’m alone in saying I have. Some deserved, some not; but it comes with the territory for anyone who’s been working for decades. Or is he now of the snowflake generation where he can’t be told he’s f-ed up because it might hurt his feelings? Give me a break.

That's a very cynical view. Her issues could be so severe that she has had to travel abroad to seek expensive expert treatments which are unavailable here. As a last resort like…