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

”resort” is likely the key word there, as in 5 Star Adult Only Resort…..

KB4 was asked what he though of The Irish politicians versus the British ones, just before the last General Election, and that he'd being keeping an eye on the winners and losers on the night. It was a jokey type question at the end of a conference (indeed it finished a conference in both Cardiff and Donegal, I assume an RTÉ head trying to get at the local yokel and how embarrassing they are to the much more sophisticated London set.) His answer was light in note, after all it was a preprepared question.

Though I would have put the question to him differently "What do you think of the management team of RTÉ versus that of OfCom and the BBC? after all you had to exit most of them I bet you weren't expecting that on your first day of work… ho … ho … ho", but I am sure that would be too much of a dig at the local yokel in RTÉ.

The public service broadcaster has been shown to be far more of a joke. But remember everything that RTÉ is great.

(By the way D4bes was offer the opportunity to write a statement or to take written questions, she refused. No she'd happy now that she's can be her pure cork self and a local yokel eating Clonakilty black pudding)

Jaysis…..never thought if see that as a headline. Further proof however that the two are inextricably and forever linked.

We’re actually discussing The Toyman’s central role in the scandal and how he and RTÉ are inextricably linked….but you know that.

Don’t forget “whilst ignoring evidence that contradicts your claim that Mr. Kelly was found to not have done anything shady”.

The NKSFs and the TSFs don’t like having these things pointed out to them of course. The Toyman is rather fond of pointing though.

Still hard to believe that an adult male is a fan of a talent agent and goes out of his way to both defend and lavish praise on him. Obsessed indeed.

Well there’s a simple solution to that then isn’t there?

You could have a word with Noel and ask him to stop feeding press releases containing stories about nothing or the most inane trivial waffle and/or manufactured stories about The Toyman’s Terrific Tales to those very same tabloids you’re complaining about and then there’d be nothing to discuss or laugh at. I don’t think the world would be a worse place with less “Ryan Tubridy wows fans and throngs of onlookers in Dun Laoghaire by eating a delicious 99 from Teddy’s whilst contemplating return to RTÉ if they apologise to him and beg him to return as he weighs up lucrative offers from the US and UK as he plans the second leg of The Bookshelf Live tour in such glamourous places as Wexford and Mayo” type articles.

Similarly with Instagram et al. No-one is forcing the stars of NKM to post absolute drivel self-promoting nonsense on a constant basis.

And there’s definitely nothing shady in that. 👍

Someone like yourself? Someone who ignores evidence to the contrary in your claim that Mr. Kelly had done nothing shady?

I can see why you avoid the news alright, seems to a prerequisite in being a TSF and an NKSF.

Does anyone know when The Toyman’s TalkSport show is starting? You know, the one he talked about frequently when he was let go from Virgin 6 months ago.

Speaking of 6 months, NK still hasn’t updated the NKM website re. The Toyman. He still presents a morning show weekdays on Virgin Radio according to the website. You’d think the best talent agent in the country (according to some) would tend to matters like these in a timely manner wouldn’t you? Then again the constant writing of press releases must take up a lot of time.

One other delicious piece in the Tubs page is the following:

Ryan’s charismatic and warm personality attracted a huge amount of Irish and international superstars since the show aired on September 4th 2009, including U2, Saoirse Ronan, Ed Sheeran, Sinead O’Connor, Tom Cruise, George Clooney and Julia Roberts to name but a few.

A couple of things on this; firstly, it’s not the host but the show and the audience numbers that attract the stars. Secondly, on the last named stars there, they didn’t come to Dublin….The Toyman and a small crew decamped to London FOR A FEW DAYS (guess who paid for that? It’s you and me, not Renault btw) FOR A 10minute meet and greet “interview” to promote a film they did together, complete with large backdrop advertising said film.

These are known as “carousel” interviews where film critics, entertainment correspondents, etc get to interview the stars for a strictly controlled time period (usually 10mins) and then they are wheeled off and the next one wheeled in with the stars sitting and nodding politely as the same questions are asked over and over again. It’s the opposite of “exclusive” basically.

NK might have to start putting E&OE at the end of these pages….

Would you like a portion of that go directly to NKM and Slim Shady?

Honestly nearly every post you make in here is related to Tubridy or Kelly, even when in reply to someone who isn't talking about either.

What do those acronyms mean? I don’t work in media/broadcasting, myself, but I’m, fairly, sure they aren’t industry terms.

Also, may I, politely, ask what the majority of posts here have to do with the broader issue of public service broadcasting reform? If I wanted to read about Ryan Tubridy’s diary then I’d visit Instagram. This is the current affairs forum, not goss.ie or ‘Menopause Monthly’.

They’re explained a few pages back, they’re as much an industry term as the acronym created by your fellow Toyman and Mr. Kelly supporter @Cyclingtourist - if you’re so offended by them at least be consistent and call him out too? But you won’t of course.

What do the posts have to do with RTÉ? They’re part of the continued and almost never ending tales by The Toyman of how wronged he was by RTÉ and how he’s the real victim here - as evidenced by Terry Prone’s piece just this week in The Examiner - that’s about as current as current affairs gets.

The Toyman and Mr. Kelly’s modus operandi of the last few years appears to be issue a press release to the rags and online gossip sites variously telling us some pick n mix combination of how brilliantly he’s doing, how he’s never been busier (true to be fair, he worked 3x the hours in his time on Virgin for anywhere between a fifth and a tenth of his former fee arrangement with RTÉ - I guess that fraction varies depending on whether you tractor the shady deals into it or not), how he’s playing senior hurling in London (but not anymore), how he doesn’t miss RTÉ and being dismissed was the best thing to ever happen to him but he’s available for selection if they want to take him back which lately turned to practically begging interspersed within a “woe is me” narrative style, As your buddy was fond of saying there for a while - lol.

The truth is The Toyman will forever be linked inextricably to dodgy and shady dealings within RTÉ - and this is the bit you lot continually miss - and it’s never going to go away and it’s certainly never going to go away as long as he keeps talking about it.

Intriguing.