RTÉ spent €50k on luxury hotels for chat show guests

RTÉ last year spent almost €50,000 putting up celebs and other guests in luxury Dublin hotels appearing on The Late Late Show and The Ray D’Arcy Show.

A number of the stars stayed in the five star Conrad and Dylan hotels as they were two of the six hotels that secured an RTÉ contract to accommodate station guests in 2015.

Figures released by RTÉ in response to a freedom of information (FoI) request confirm that RTÉ last year spent €30,428 on accommodating guests who appeared on Ryan Tubridy’s Late Late Show which works out at an average of €822 per show.