At a time when RTÉ staff were taking pay cuts and the broadcaster was looking for voluntary redundancies, RTÉ was making secret payments to Ryan Tubridy to top up his salary. RTÉ’s Trade Union Group (TUG) has now come out strongly in response to revelations this Thursday that unofficial payments were made to the broadcaster’s most highly paid presenter, calling it a “breach of trust” and requesting a meeting with the chair of the RTÉ board, Siún Ní Raghallaigh.  In a statement to The Currency, the group of unions expressed shock and disappointment at the previously undisclosed payments detailed in…

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