The demonstration comes one day after Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly faced hours of questioning from two key parliamentary committees.
THE NEW DIRECTOR-GENERAL of RTÉ briefly met some members of staff as approximately 100 employees staged a rally outside the national broadcaster to call on the government to support public service broadcasting.
Employees are concerned that fallout from a controversy over understated payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy will lead to a drop in commercial revenues from advertising and fewer people paying the obligatory TV licence fee. “We urgently need a sustainable model for the funding of public service broadcasting to be put in place.”
Addressing the demonstration, Dooley said there were people in politics and in commercial media “who would dance on the grave of RTE”. Among the revelations from those blockbuster appearances was an email which Kelly suggested directly contradicted the claim that ex-director general Dee Forbes had done a “solo run” by agreeing to underwrite a €75,000 deal involving RTÉ, Tubridy and Renault.
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