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

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41865168.html

Intriguing.

No-one is criticising people who are doing a good job.

People are criticising those who aren’t*, and an organisation which through revelations made public via The Ryan Tubridy Pay Scandal showed that organisation to be extremely wasteful of public money - be that overpaying staff and “talent”, junkets and freebies, etc. as well as said organisation’s management astonishing display of arrogance before, during and after the Oireachtas hearing that gave us such unforgettable highlights.

*riddle me this - do you believe every single employee in RTÉ is going a good job, performing optimally, and delivering value for money? You won’t answer of course.

I see they are still showing EastEnders. That should be cancelled right away.

I mean, who Watches this low class trash.

I was at Metallica on Friday and going back again tonight - saw quite a few RTÉ heads around blocks 303-307 on freebies no doubt. Saw a few Bauer heads too in the same area.

I flew to London yesterday morning for a short trip overnight and now back in Heathrow where I’m just finishing Conor Niland’s autobiography that I started yesterday. It’s not the most taxing book I’ve ever read so to speak and typical of many sports autobiographies in its simple prose.

The Toyman gets a mention. Niland was a guest on TLLS and describes Tubs as being (from memory) “nervous and agitated”. Intriguing.

if I have a moment and I can find the page I’ll take a photo.

Disturbing story in today’s Sindo about the number of incidents of threats, and harassment, against RTÉ staff. Everyone is entitled to go to work and not be abused, and intimidated, by thugs and swivel-eyed loons. A lot of this “activity” has moved online and there’s a cohort of pathetic losers who feel they can abuse public figures with impunity online.

I see Graham Norton has won a case against Meta in his fight to discover who is the weirdo behind an account spreading rumours about him. More of this needed.

Hopefully a digital ID will lift the lid on who these social outcasts really are. I believe in freedom of speech, as much as the next person, but that shouldn’t extend to harassment, unfair criticism, or the questioning of vaccine mandates.

Are you suggesting posters on this thread are “thugs and swivel eyed loons” or “pathetic losers” and “social outcasts”?

Are you suggesting posters on this thread are “operating multiple IDs via VPNs and other means for nefarious reasons”?

Would you be so kind as to provide a link to the article you refer to above which despite looking for I cannot find?

https://extra.ie/2026/06/21/news/rte-staff-incidents

Jan to Sep 2025

34 cases of 3rd party violence

16 phone calls, 4 emails, 4 cases of stalking/harassment, 3 cases of verbal abuse/threats/aggression towards employees and 3 cases of anti-social behaviour, 1 case of physical assault/pushing shoving, 1 case of trespassing (none of these 31 cases would change if new rules were introduced to social media).

Just 2 threatening social media posts were also logged, any new rules would possibly not change this either. I am missing one case?

All staff were supported and any that required garda investigation were reported to the gardaí.

Overall 78 cases were reported.

health safety due to working environment: -

Accidents - 15 (4 - staff hit by falling or moving object, 3 - staff hit against something fixed or stationary, 3 slips, trips and falls, 2 cases of twists/turn of body, 2 phyical stress or strain and 1 hot liquid spill).

18 other near misses, 7 illnesses and 3 undesirable circumstances.

It would be interesting to read the full report and the incidences involved.

This seems like a standard report that any organization would carry out. How many Social Welfare officers have been threatened in the course of their work, how many nurses, doctors, teachers or anyone dealing with the public on a day-to-day basis. This does in anyway dismiss the report by RTÉ but RTÉ is one of many organization including other semi-state bodies that would come across someone antagonistic towards them.

The decision by RTÉ to make their CFO redundant even though the role was not being made redundant.

The decision by RTÉ to invest in the Toy show the musical "in away" that was not consistent with general governance resulting in most of the board saying it was a "fait accompli".

Their continued decision to suggest that their "talent" were worth the money the were on and that at all cost that "talent" should be mollycoddled, resulting in their commerical director suggesting that one agent would pay invoice for "consultancy fees" to barter account in the UK via his UK company.

The 'overvaluation' of talent. The cutting of core public services such as "children's content", "drama", "comedy", most any of the programmes designated for RTÉ2, along with reduced schedule for other programming such as NEWS and current affairs.

and on and on and on

I mean you must agree that they have a 'civic duty' to run the national broadcaster correctly.

In the last 3 years, what have the done? I see no change.

in relation to to the following:

Accidents - 15 (4 - staff hit by falling or moving object, 3 - staff hit against something fixed or stationary, 3 slips, trips and falls, 2 cases of twists/turn of body, 2 phyical stress or strain and 1 hot liquid spill).

was there any detail in the report as to whether any claims were made against RTÉ in relation to the above?

I think this information is needed tbh, esp. if compensation claims are made and paid for people “hitting” into fixed objects etc.

How do you mean?

I'd argue that most of the progressive class was raised on BBC 2 and Channel 4 TBH, and that cable, our US and UK cousins / family members also did more to change Ireland, that RTÉ really ever did.

If you look at RTÉ its schedules at the beginning inundated with US programming, later followed by UK and Australian programming. Few exports to other English speaking countries.

There really are no naysayers, there are critics of an organisation that badly let their audience down.

As I say RTÉ had a civic duty to provide a public service broadcasters but they ultimately failed to do this.

You can talk about naysayers and begrugers till the cows come home, but unless you give good examples of the greatness of RTÉ then I am sorry such labels won't stick.