{"id":279304,"date":"2026-02-03T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279304\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:19:09","slug":"rte-director-general-kevin-bakhurst-says-there-will-be-no-change-to-rte-pay-cap-despite-claire-byrne-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279304\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 director general Kevin Bakhurst says there will be no change to RT\u00c9\u00a0pay cap despite Claire Byrne exit,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Boss of national broadcaster also says water has passed under the bridge with Ryan Tubridy and does not rule out his return\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kevin Bakhurst, director general of RT\u00c9. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/171db892-f052-4d83-804a-9d50467d9602.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kevin Bakhurst, director general of RT\u00c9. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The director general of RT\u00c9 has ruled out any change to the pay cap at the station, despite the loss of Claire Byrne to Newstalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In an interview with the Irish Independent, Kevin Bakhurst said he has had very few issues with the limit on presenters\u2019 earnings he imposed in 2023 following the controversy over secret payments to Ryan Tubridy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boss of national broadcaster also says water has passed under the bridge with Ryan Tubridy and does not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6130,93,61,60,5243,47232,6133,6085,6084,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-279304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-claire-byrne","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-burns","13":"tag-kevin-bakhurst","14":"tag-newstalk","15":"tag-rte","16":"tag-ryan-tubridy","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}