In the final moments of this Wednesday’s Oireachtas Media Committee hearing on the finances of RTÉ , chair of the committee and Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth went around the house for a mini-CV and vibes check from each of the board members who had not been in session before, including deputy chair of RTÉ and editor of The Currency Ian Kehoe, along with Web Summit co-founder Daire Hickey, RTÉ staff representative Robert Shortt, MIT academic Jonathan Ruane, businesswoman Anne O’Leary, playwright Aideen Howard, tech entrepreneur Connor Murphy, media executive David Harvey and UCD lecturer PJ Matthews. Smyth was concerned…

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