RTÉ rejects claim made by Noel Kelly in opening statement to Oireachtas committee

Noel Kelly and Ryan Tubridy. Picture: Mark Doyle 

Ryan Tubridy’s agent has said that the scandal surrounding the under-declaration of his salary is “entirely a mess of RTÉ’s own making” and that Mr Tubridy has been made “a poster boy” for what has happened.

Noel Kelly told a hotly-anticipated meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that RTÉ “knew what they had paid Ryan”, saying that former chief financial officer Breda O’Keeffe had “set out the actual earnings for each of the relevant years correctly” in December 2019.