“I was pleased to be a part of your entertainment anyway.” This is how Kevin Bakhurst playfully opened his answer to a question about Oireachtas scrutiny of the recent RTÉ affair, asked from the audience at last week’s Celtic Media Festival in Cardiff, where he was interviewed by the BBC’s Kaye Adams. He can joke now but it was a turbulent first year at the top of RTÉ for the director general, who was under intense public and political questioning from day one. With the key reports into the multitude of governance, transparency and accountability issues that emerged at the broadcaster…

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