Dee Forbes resigns as head of RTÉ

[678904673]

I know, but as an employee of the state broadcaster, taking a car for 5 years from one of their advertisers has to constitute an act of gross misconduct. Surely, somewhere in their toilet-paper contracts, there are provisions for sacking arseholes who take back-handers like this.

BIK evasion is also likely a real thing here for Marty. I hope he's prosecuted if so. Send the warning shot across the bows for all the other rotten bastards lining their pockets on the side from RTE.

He's not an employee of Renault. So I don't think BIK applies here. What he did was still taking the p*ss. But I suspect he'll get away with it

[PogMoThoin22]

I know, but as an employee of the state broadcaster, taking a car for 5 years from one of their advertisers has to constitute an act of gross misconduct. Surely, somewhere in their toilet-paper contracts, there are provisions for sacking arseholes who take back-handers like this.

BIK evasion is also likely a real thing here for Marty. I hope he's prosecuted if so. Send the warning shot across the bows for all the other rotten bastards lining their pockets on the side from RTE.

Is it BIK though, he doesn't work for Renault therefore it's income tax evasion

[jmayo]

Minister for Media Catherine Martin says (a couple of times in a minute) that there are things (like RTE's respectability essentially) "that should not be questioned". Her words.

She's a grade A moron only there because her party had to be brought on board to prop up the other two and yes being brutally honest because she is a woman.

People used to laugh at the old folky lads from previous governments, but the modern crew are just more polished turds with little going on between their ears.
Martin, McEntee, O'Gorman, Ryan, Foley, Donnelly, Harris are idiots whose ineptitude would be funny, but for the dangerous long term damage they are doing to this state.

[95438756]

the modern crew are just more polished turds with best described as marshmallow matter between their ears.

Fyp.

[kadman]

Nobody will be accountable at all, as we live in a society where certain privileged folk have different rules from the rest of us ordinary Joe's. It operates from the top down from government all the way down to anyplace thats funded by the tax payer, where the perpetrators feed from the trough, anyway they bloody like.
Drive to work with yer tax out 1 day, and see how the ordinary guy gets fleeced.

[95438756]

Drive to work with yer tax out 1 day, and see how the ordinary guy gets fleeced.

As described by an elderly uncle of mine of his experience driving in rural Cork some time back.

[95438756]

Just something, anything for us little people!
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2023/070 ... v-licence/
EDIT: I have a current valid TV license too

[marhay70]

Photo has emerged of flip flops being delivered to Montrose


https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dy ... 8620713823

[kadman]

Politicians are encouraging, and lapping up this RTE purge, because it keeps them out of the limelight.

[4524689]

At least the politicians can be purged at an election (ideal world) but the RTÉ cesspool has been beyond the reach of everyone for decades.

I know there are folks who work hard to earn their crust even in Montrose. But if any of them along with the total wasters are caught now, they should be sacked and named publicly for their misdeeds.

Start at the top and go all the way to the bottom, cleaning as they go. It’s the only way RTÉ can restore public confidence. And then cap ALL salaries at €120k max, no matter how senior you are in office. Don’t care who you are, you’re not worth more than that to the license payer or to the general taxpayer.

[marhay70]

At least the politicians can be purged at an election (ideal world) but the RTÉ cesspool has been beyond the reach of everyone for decades.

I know there are folks who work hard to earn their crust even in Montrose. But if any of them along with the total wasters are caught now, they should be sacked and named publicly for their misdeeds.

Start at the top and go all the way to the bottom, cleaning as they go. It’s the only way RTÉ can restore public confidence. And then cap ALL salaries at €120k max, no matter how senior you are in office. Don’t care who you are, you’re not worth more than that to the license payer or to the general taxpayer.

The argument will always be "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" and there is a certain logic to that. Of course, you can still get monkeys whether or not you pay peanuts which is probably true of some of the "stars". A realistic figure needs to be arrived at for Senior Executives and I don't think that figure is going to be less than €200000, simply because they can go elsewhere and get that, they're not really restrained by the industry.
Same can't be said for the "talent". Where else could Joe Duffy get €350,000 or Ray Darcy, or Miriam O'Callaghan? If they can, then good luck to them, but I can't see it and because they are not technically employees of RTE, it's hard to work out what they're actually getting paid for. It's claimed that if these presenters were to move on, the audiences and therefore, the advertisers would go with them, but I wonder. Audiences tend to listen at time slots, I usually listen between 8 and 5 weekdays regardless of who is presenting, I have a preference for some over others but in the summer months when these guys disappear for weeks on end, I don't miss them and I get on just as well with whoever replaces them.

[4524689]

Fair points. But no 'talent' filling a few hours worth of broadcast time each week should be paid more than 120k. Let them go, some other hungry and hardworking type will take the slot and entertain us nonetheless.

[Del.Monte]

Liveline on Thursday 6th July was virtually non-stop live coverage from the RTE people being grilled in the Dail - if we wanted to hear that we could have listened in on the RTE News channel or whatever it's called. Lazy, lazy broadcasting which he should not be paid a red cent for.

[marhay70]

Fair points. But no 'talent' filling a few hours worth of broadcast time each week should be paid more than 120k. Let them go, some other hungry and hardworking type will take the slot and entertain us nonetheless.

Maybe they should only use RTE employees to present these shows.

[4524689]

Maybe they should only use RTE employees to present these shows.

Indeed they should. With a non-compete clause in effect while under employment.

Any external bookings through a dedicated corporate/event sales team, with all revenues and expenses correctly accounted for. And if they can't do that profitably, it should be stopped dead in the water as an activity.

It's time they ran that place like any other business, instead of like a corrupt former soviet country.

[marhay70]

Indeed they should. With a non-compete clause in effect while under employment.

Any external bookings through a dedicated corporate/event sales team, with all revenues and expenses correctly accounted for. And if they can't do that profitably, it should be stopped dead in the water as an activity.

It's time they ran that place like any other business, instead of like a corrupt former soviet country.

You would hope the new DG will take that approach, he'll never get a better opportunity, although you wonder would he have changed anything but for all the hassle.

[Johnny Von Pintland]

Jesus, there’s a huge of complete oddballs in the Current Affairs thread about this in CA. Do those people ever leave the house? Sad auld life for them tbh. You’d wonder if the internet has destroyed them.

[95438756]

Jesus, there’s a huge of complete oddballs in the Current Affairs thread about this in CA. Do those people ever leave the house? Sad auld life for them tbh. You’d wonder if the internet has destroyed them.

Boards is full of rage-bait now.

[95438756]

Ah the poor craethur.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0711/13938 ... ommittees/

[marhay70]

Shit could be about to hit the fan at the PAC meeting today, Tubridy and Kelly coming out fighting and not in agreement with what RTE are saying.
Something has to give.

[schmittel]

Fighting talk indeed.

Any further speculation of Tubridy returning to RTE seems unlikely now.

[marhay70]

Tubridy coming across as an arrogant fcuker, burning his bridges, I fear.
Nothing I like more than to see the likes of these guys made to eat humble pie and I include the RTE Board in that.

[Berties_Horse]

Ryan Tubridy, the "conscience" of a nation who used the plight of homeless children to justify an elaborate lie about reduction in salary. "Burnt out and exhausted" he is, slaving five hours per week can be quite debilitating. All that frantic hand waving and table banging, a one-man pantomime and audience of none. The performance was so hammy Terry Prone curled into the foetal position with cringe. And it gets worse, trading chaste glances with Noel Kelly like a scolded child desperately seeking approval. Unable to deviate from the script, squirming and gurning idiotically. A national embarrassment with virtually no scope for redemption.

[marhay70]

Q: "Did you issue an invoice for Consultancy Services?"
A: "Everything we did, we did on the instruction of RTE"

This and a lot more of the evidence that Noel Kelly gave with the hope of hanging RTE, is in fact having the opposite effect. If you commit an offence it remains an offence regardless of whether you committed it on instruction or not. "We we only following orders", didn't wash for the Nazis and it won't wash now.

[PogMoThoin22]

They told us to do it