On the fringes of this Wednesday Oireachtas Media Committee, Geraldine O’Leary, RTÉ’s outgoing chief commercial officer, gave a smarting response to someone who awkwardly wished her well in her retirement. The coverage of her, O’Leary said ignoring the benediction, had been completely unacceptable and a total invasion of privacy. Cutting the conversation at its root, she walked away.  Earlier, there had been a crackle in O’Leary’s voice as she told Sinn Féin TD Imelda Munster that, although she was due to retire in eight weeks, the media coverage and the erroneous information being shared on Twitter about her had “crossed…

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