RTÉ says Dee Forbes signed off on payments to Ryan Tubridy

Dee Forbes (L) resigned with immediate effect from RTÉ on Monday. She is pictured here with Ryan Tubridy who, according to Grant Thornton, did no wrong in relation to the current payments controversy. File Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

RTÉ has said a series of controversial payments to Ryan Tubridy from 2020 would have been given final approval by Director General Dee Forbes.

Its interim director general Adrian Lynch also pointed out that no member of RTÉ’s executive other than Ms Forbes “had all the necessary information in order to understand that the publicly declared figures for Ryan Tubridy could have been wrong”.