Grant Thornton will investigate payments to top RTÉ presenters going back to 2008, including the statement by resigned director general Dee Forbes that she didn’t know about pre-2020 hidden fees to Ryan Tubridy.
The major commercial sponsors of Ryan Tubridy's TV and radio shows are understood to be in discussions with RTÉ over the presenter's hidden payments, which he has now apologised for not questioning.
By suspending its top executive, the board of RTÉ has confirmed that she is at the centre of ongoing investigations.
When RTÉ staff were facing pay cuts, slashed allowances and voluntary redundancies, the broadcaster's most highly paid presenter was getting secret salary top-ups. The trade unions have called this a "breach of trust" and are looking for answers.
We now know that the State broadcaster's highest-paid presenter in fact received more than €500,000 for each of the past six years once unofficial payments are factored in. How was the practice allowed for so long and why did RTÉ's governance leave it undetected?
Rockboro primary school charged fees of €5,000 per year and educated some of Cork's best known faces. The school sent out a mayday plea last month but it wasn't enough.
Mac-Interiors needs external investment to exit examinership and re-establish itself as a leading contractor capable of delivering on a project pipeline of €340m, according to its interim examiner report.
Ryanair told team members in an email that its chief pilot had his employment terminated on Tuesday evening with immediate effect after an investigation stated there was a "repeated pattern of inappropriate behaviour”.
Interim examiners have been appointed to Mac Interiors. Now, an 85-page report from EY reveals how it got to this point and the scale of the company's issues.
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