Deal to bring Tubridy back to RTÉ radio falls apart as Bakhurst decides now is not ‘right time’ for return
It’s striking that this all comes in the wake of the second Grant Thornton report, which found not just that the presenter and his agent were entirely blameless in relation to the misreporting of his income between 2017 and 2019, but that their attempts to get that misreporting rectified had been ignored. Arguably Tubridy and Noel Kelly should have been getting an apology this week from RTÉ, but there was no sign of that.
There is another constituency to which Bakhurst has been highly attentive since he took over as director general six weeks ago. RTÉ staff have been vocal in their anger about the misreported payments, with much of that anger directed towards excessively paid presenters in general and Tubridy in particular. That anger has not abated and is unlikely to have been assuaged by Tubridy’s words this week.
It’s not always a good idea to base your hiring decisions on a straw poll of your own employees, but in this case Bakhurst was probably right to be seen to take on board staff concerns. Discussions over Tubridy’s return to work seemed to go almost too smoothly over the past few weeks, which didn’t quite fit with the new regime’s claim to be implementing robust and radical change.
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