{"id":42738,"date":"2023-06-26T07:08:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/06\/26\/ryan-tubridy-rte-director-general-dee-forbes-resigns\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T07:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:08:55","slug":"ryan-tubridy-rte-director-general-dee-forbes-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=42738","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Tubridy: RT\u00c9 director general Dee Forbes resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Director general of RT\u00c9, Dee Forbes, has resigned with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The move comes as presenter Ryan Tubridy was paid \u20ac345,000 (\u00a3296,800) more than had been published in the Irish broadcaster&#8217;s earnings reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The TV and radio host received the payments between 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In a statement on Monday, Ms Forbes said she has &#8220;engaged with and consistently co-operated with the processes directed towards answering questions surrounding payments to Ryan Tubridy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"> &#8220;As director general, I am the person ultimately accountable for what happens within the organisation and I take that responsibility seriously,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;I am tendering my resignation to RT\u00c9 with immediate effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crg3pd1qpe9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Director general of RT\u00c9, Dee Forbes, has resigned with immediate effect. The move comes as presenter Ryan Tubridy was paid \u20ac345,000 (\u00a3296,800) more than had been published in the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}