RTÉ bailout: Households to stump up €725m over three years for broadcaster

by PoppedCork

26 comments
  1. Can I show this article to the inspector next time he comes around as proof I have paid?

    What other business comes around knocking on your door asking for cash for a service you do not use? Legalized and govt imposed scam.

  2. Cunts aren’t even showing any League of Ireland teams in Europe.

    Absolute disgrace of a national broadcaster.

  3. Seems like we could build a new RTE for less money.

  4. The most popular comedy act in Ireland now is foul arms & hog and they make their shorts on YouTube for a few hundred euro and I can watch that online and it’s completely for free.

  5. The cost of both referendums in march was €21m. I think the people would much rather have a referendum on this rather than it being forced upon us.

  6. Sorry, this is all my fault. I moved out of my parents house 16 years ago and have never paid my tv license

  7. If they produced some high quality content, it might be acceptable to some degree, but there is nothing but crap shows with presenters that have no charisma and production values that rival a primary schools Christmas play.

    For that reason, I haven’t owned or used a TV in years.

  8. Some bustards are stuffing their fucking pockets somewhere anyway for sure.

  9. 90% of the listings on RTE are 2nd/3rd rate foreign programmes that nobody would care less about if they weren’t being shown. Where the hell does all the money go? Why does it need so many staff? RTE produces very little of its own programmes. Absolute scandal we are expected to fund this money pit to this degree.

  10. Some good shows on it where minor celebrities go on Sun holidays and report on what a nice time they are having.

  11. You can always tell it’s the Indo from the headline. 🙂

  12. 725m ? How the fuck did they come up with that number? Did they pull it out of their arse like that banker from a few years ago?

  13. What is the need for RTE2 or 2FM? They are getting funded and competing against commercial equivalents who have to behave like normal businesses to survive

  14. Shower of bastards. They continously run public money down the drain and betray public trust, because they don’t GAF about the public. They kept the fat cats happy while they sacked some ordinary joe workers to make it look like they were making an effort to reform. And now they get a free bailout. I bloody despise RTE and the government for giving in.

  15. I don’t care if I get downvoted. In the last 10 years all RTE has produced is shite that only a cokehead, out of touch, desperate boomer would find acceptable.

    Nobody cares about the job I do either; Just wish there was a law that would make people pay me to keep doing it, too.

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