RTÉ Crisis: Here's nine new things we’ve learned following the blistering opening statements from Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly
to the idea of Tubridy returning to the broadcaster: “We’ll have to see how events this week go.”
However, an email from O’Keeffe disclosed by Tubridy’s team, copying in Forbes and director of content Jim Jennings, outlines that RTÉ are willing to “provide you with a side letter to underwrite this fee for the duration of the contract”. Kelly draws extra attention to this in his opening statement, calling it “perhaps the most shocking revelation”, and stating the idea there was strong pushback against the underwriting is “incorrect”.
Tubridy says that because of how RTÉ reported that decision, a narrative has emerged that “not only did I take this payment but that somehow I contrived to hide it”. It is a tangled and complicated web, seemingly compounded by the different views of the appropriate accounting treatment of €75,000 payments made to Tubridy by RTÉ as part of the underwriting agreement.Another key point of controversy has been the labelling of invoices paid by RTÉ from its barter account, and destined for Tubridy through Kelly as “consultancy fees”. Kelly is again on the attack here, outlining that for the first payment, Tubridy’s team were told to invoice Renault.
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