RTÉ Payments Scandal
RTÉ barter account under scrutiny after execs reveal €138,000 spend on rugby tickets
Siún Ní Raghallaigh says she is “appalled as to how payments were recorded and presented in the RTÉ accounts”
Former RTÉ director general Dee Forbes said that the €75,000 invoices for Ryan Tubridy related to services provided during Covid-19 by the presenter’s agent Noel Kelly when questioned by RTÉ’s chief financial officer Richard Collins.
Collins told TDs on Thursday that on March 7, Deloitte approached him saying there were elements of the RTÉ audit carried out into the payments they were not happy about.
Collins said he then approached Forbes about the invoices and ...