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here has been saturation coverage in recent weeks on the subject of RTE and its failure to state the correct income of its top earner, Ryan Tubridy, over recent years. The question of false accounting was also raised in Oireachtas hearings, only to be firmly batted away by Noel Kelly, Tubridy’s agent.
With the station under immense pressure, RTE journalists were praised for their thorough and fearless chasing down of this story.
Yet there’s a far bigger and more consequential story, with more than a hint of false accounting, that RTE ignores. Most of the media ignore it. This story is harder to understand, and can’t be reduced to a simple tale of goodies and baddies. Most of us are benefiting from this particular false
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