Quote Originally Posted by wombat View Post
All that said, I cannot understand how he was allowed to take a leave of absence from RTE, I suspect that without the 150k parachute, he would have stayed as a TD for a slightly longer period.
Jesus h wombat that's a very skewed way of looking at it: he took an unpaid leave of absence from his highly successful career - jeez even pregnant employees are entitled to maternity leave - but he threw it all up in the air. For the People. Then nine months later the truth emerged.

Fine Gael tried to lock him down, but Prometheus will not be bound.

Quote Originally Posted by John Biffo View Post
George Lee excelled in doing what he did with the backing of the RTE machine ,and the knowledge that everything was 'laid on' for him in RTE.
No.
George called it, simples.

Quote Originally Posted by Dialasceptic View Post
It's a massive pay-off for eight months work.
Wherefore with this vector victor?
I think George has an idea:

"They are scraping the bottom of the barrel for an excuse to explain what has gone wrong. They are trying to denigrate me. There’s about 70 of them and an organisation with a whole press team. They know what they are doing, they are trying to turn it on me rather than focus on the issues. If it was about money I’d still be there [the Dáil]. I can’t believe they are resorting to that," he said.