Under-reporting of Tubridy's salary just the latest episode in the tale of RTÉ's financial woes

Ryan Tubridy and outgoing RTÉ director general Dee Forbes. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Just weeks before a routine audit of RTÉ in late March discovered issues in its finances, the organisation's outgoing director-general Dee Forbes was speaking publicly of measures taken to trim costs. 

As the salaries of high earners were revealed in February, Ms Forbes spoke about reductions in pay of more than 15% for 2020 and 2021.