“Big projects, particularly big IT projects, can go wrong.” This is how the director general of RTÉ, Kevin Bakhurst, responded to a question about the broadcaster’s part-failed IT project at the inaugural sitting of the newly formed Oireachtas media committee in late May.  As revealed by The Currency at the end of April, the broadcaster wrote off a total of €3.6 million on its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project to replace a number of outdated finance and HR systems, funded from proceeds of a land sale in 2017. Given the various issues that arose between 2019 and 2022 – the…

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