Ten new things we’ve learned after Ryan Tubridy's marathon Oireachtas committee sessions
Today, Tubridy rounded on the broadcaster, criticising it on multiple occasions – not least outlining his particular upset and disappointment “about the decision and framing of the RTÉ statement of June 22nd which inextricably linked my name to this whole fiasco”. He told the committee that he had 30 minutes notice of the statement, and that changes were requested - specifically a reference to how he had not been found to have acted wrongly - were not incorporated.
The key issue facing RTÉ is that even if the email doesn’t necessarily suggest the existence of a contractual relationship - it does seem to undermine the broadcaster’s previous focus on significant internal push back against the idea, until it supposedly went through on the nod from Forbes. “Other people knew bar Dee Forbes, that’s the whole point,” Kelly told the PAC.
Kelly went on to argue that RTÉ's original figures for 2020 and 2021, published in February of this year, were correct, only for the broadcaster to overstate the figures it paid Tubridy in these years, understate them for 2022, in a revision to his payments published last month. “RTÉ never said that to us. Astus never said that to us. Renault never said that to us,” he told the committee.
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