Are your mates also getting back handers, or are they just a bunch of lackeys?
‘According to my mates in rte’ Jesus wept
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I recall seeing him on tv over there as a young buck. Was young at time, but remember it was dire. There was no rapport with guests. They were probably thinking ‘gay who’.
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If he was a real star he’d have been snapped up by the bbc like terry Wogan.
No harm to gay but rte really struggled to put together any sort of a highlights reel…the best they could do was billy connolly, spike milligan or dave allen being funny and gay laughing…with maybe some ground breaking mention of condoms.
You’d think he’d have had a few interesting moments in such a long career
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I would agree.
There are two things with respect to what we’re learning to date that you could point at Tubs for:
- Not coming forward and stating he was warning more than RTE published…
- Not taking a pay cut in parrallel with other RTE staff…
In both cases he was under no obligation and his response can reasonably be:
(For) 1. Not sure why RTE mis-stated or miscalculated it and its not my responsibility outside of my tax affairs to declare that (assuming everything is above board on that front)…i wouldnt know the scope or be involved in said reporting.
(For) 2. Speak to my agent…I felt I was being underpaid for my role anyway…
Noone will like those answers but from what we know now (there are some potential holes) he can carry himself on those.
But as for the crowd in front of the Committee today…not a shred of credibility and all of them seem to represent symptoms of the problems central to all this. End of the day here I feel there is a massive failure in governance, financial management, communication, controls, accounting, audit and generally culture. This is a public sector entity. Noone trusts their main governing body as of now. All of these are going to have to own it and being honest I feel there is a realistic possibility that this may go the legal route at one point in one fashion or another for losses.
Advertisers and householders (re licence fees) are not going to finance the product based on this and the argument is they shouldnt. This crowd need to front up tomorrow. When the Taoiseach is calling you out the game is well and truly up and I wouldnt test patience…
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Byrne could be quite condescending and intolerant because he was not particularly well informed or educated like Kenny is although Byrne was a very intelligent man and. Tubs is not particularly well informed or educated either and not even engaging as a presenter. Still, he went a long way on such modest talent. I think his career in Ireland is fucked now because of this.
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If you ordered Gaybo off Wish this is what you’d get.
Tail
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Terry from Limerick ?
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Wasn’t Tubs doing holiday cover for Graham Norton on BBC 2 for a while? Amazing they didn’t snap him up for a full time gig that time.
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I believe advances were made but tubridy didn’t feel the time was right
Circumstances have changed a small bit
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You’re close to getting two nice posts for the same post but I won’t aid you in that conquest
I believe there’s a vacancy in a mid morning show at radio Norwich
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He was ran out of it after he stank the place out
Having never liked Oliver Callan or found him funny before I’ve found him very entertaining on the Ryan Tubridy show - which they’re conspicuously no longer calling the Ryan Tubridy show - this week. Yesterday he had a gag about rte producing great drama and none of the writers letting drop any spoilers or giving away any info at all, even to Oireachtas committees. This morning he opened with Oliver Callan here, still standing in on what I’m calling the Ryan Tubridy purgatory show, when will it end, nobody knows. Text or call us, we’re still using the hashtag don’t mention the thing.
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I guess you had to be there.
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Gaybo started out with Granada and the bbc afaik. RTÉ snapped him up pronto
I’d have sympathy with the rte crew. It was virtually indistinguishable
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