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

I'd love for Virgin Media to do a Prime Time style investigation in to the expenses, allowances and other goings on in RTE.

Just to correct one glaring error

The kid in charge will be available again with the Easter school holidays

NK minions don’t come cheap, Doncha know!

Just watching Crime Call and a very small example of waste (in my opinion). The Garda was talking about some crimes and showing CCTV. Built into the desk in front of him was a big wide screen tv. It only displayed the number to call. Could they not have used a print out or just a plain desk as the number is on screen anyway.

At a pure guess - maybe 300-500 and of course NK would get his cut of that. Speaking of NK, I'm thinking Conor Pope is in the Kelly camp too.

Kelly doing fierce business in RTE at the mo. Bannon wraps it up for a while and in steps, Hugh 'poshy' Wallace and Baz 'charisma by-pass' Ashmawy.

or we could return to simpler times

Get the notion with George if you nipped your finger he'd report that your arm was amputated, he was only on reporting that some well foddered people at the IPCC didn't want anyone else to be as well foddered

Then tries to justify it when there plenty of people who couldn't even afford a 1 week holiday never mind his hotel and restaurant trotting multi week excursion - they really have no sense of the average Joe paying their wages

Him and the gammy guy from friends of the earth, the wile stupid one,they've been shouting the End is Nigh so long people just switch off. Calling Lee a journalist is ridiculous, town joke would be more apt.

Whatever hopes you have for your cause are lost when RTEs version of the Scottish one from Dad's Army is rolled out. "We're all doomed",Chicken Licken wouldn't have a look in with George's fleets of doomladen fantasy, you do know he's recycling his covid doom which was in itself a carbon copy of his 2008 recession doom,

We are pretty much on the same page here.

Though I may have phrased it a bit clumsily my point is that there is no sense in blaming GL.

The message from IPCC won't change.

If we could only "cancel" climate change.

@Brock Turnpike @Johnny Anorak Looks like they are just off for the weekend. I'd say they'd both be talking about leaving at this point.

Returned to RTE as he was on better money there than in Leinster House. What qualifications does GL have to be reporting on climate change or Covid as he previously covered.

Ton of kids training themselves up on YouTube etc, producing and presenting their own stuff to the world at a fraction of the cost leaving all those dinosaurs in the dust.

RTE is like some shite UK satellite station with property porn programming to rile up the masses when they are not at their masses.

It's not even funny anymore.

You might think t was to do with money but the reason he gave at the time was different.

He said he felt he was being ignored by FG and thought he could make more of a contribution if given the chance.

He holds a Bachelors Degree from UCD and a Masters in Economics from LSE and has been a Journalist at RTE since 1992 apart from the sojourn in Leinster House.

Sometimes journalists are formally qualified in the field they report on but more commonly they rely on their training, experience and contacts.

I suppose it would be a waste of time to ask if you have any evidence that he resigned as a TD over money?

So you reckon that there would be an expert in epidemiology at a loose end who happened to be a journalist to cover the Covid story?

The claim was made by Lee's campaign manager.

I suppose if you had a house fire you'd ring a hair dresser, which is along the same lines as sending Lee off to report on Covid. As a national publicly funded broadcaster surely the least it's funders deserve is to have suitably qualified or experienced people reporting on a subject. A first year med student would have added more than Lee.

When did his campaign manager make that claim?

AFAIK he was frozen out by an internal FG power struggle involving his effort to have more influence on policy.

As I outlined in my other post he is suitably qualified and experienced.

If you don't like his style that's your opinion and you are entitled to it.

Suitably qualified my ass. His style has nothing to do with it. His lack of qualifications in his subject area is the issue.

It is amazing how quickly this thread can move back to everything that is there to distract from the ultimately badly managed organization that is RTÉ.

Cathal Goan: Distraction Tactics

Executive: Thinking of getting George Lee to go up for election

CG: Eh!

Executive: as a member of FG

CG: and the Mullholland joby

Executive: Missioned accomplished!

5 years later

Noel Curran: Distraction Tactics

Executive: We've brought George Lee back so that is helpful for a while, thinking of getting Pat Kenny to move to Newstalk, that along with the usual Angelus stuff.

NC: Eh!

Executive: Mulholland replaced by BBC Exe who had some connection to the whole Saville thing, but really not enough to get people talking.

NC: That's surprising considering the bollocking I got from Dobo on Six One.

3 years later

Dee Forbes: Distraction Tactics

Executive: We've decided that the Late Late should slowly morph into a telethon for various causes and that Ryan will show no real emotion.

DF: Eh!

Executive: Claire Byrne is going to Monday nights with a psuedo-Current Affairs show but really we have some props we need using and it will be a consumer show.

DF: Well hopefully something major will happen. Now do I get those moving fee direct to my account?