The Grant Thornton report into secret 2022 payments by RTÉ to its presenter Ryan Tubridy finds they were described as “consultancy fees’” but “on the balance of probabilities” this “did not reflect the substance of the transactions”.  Paul Jacobs, partner and head of forensic risk at Grant Thornton, finds it to be “inconclusive” who came up with the idea to describe payments to Tubridy as “consultancy fees,” but he finds that “RTÉ could have made the two payments of €75,000 by an alternative means, for example, payment from RTÉ to talent’s agent [Noel Kelly] or talent’s company [Ryan Tubridy’s company…

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