The board of RTE was told of as payments issue involving top earner Ryan Tubridy in the same week the Dubliner announced his departure from the Late Late Show, it has emerged.
The payments controversy enveloping the national broadcaster allegedly came to light in March of this year as accountants poured over the financial goings on at RTE and in the same week Tubridy announced he was stepping away from the Late Late, according to the Irish Independent.
It emerged this week that hidden payments of €345,000 were paid to Tubridy over a period of five years. In a statement on Thursday, the RTE board said that between 2017 and 2022, Mr Tubridy received a series of payments totalling €345,000 above his annual published salary, which were not declared to the public and the Oireachtas.
