“I don’t know what public service broadcasting is.” Shane Ross says he thought he would find the answer to this riddle during the years spent researching his new book on RTÉ, but the process left him none the wiser. Whatever public service broadcasting is, RTÉ is generally regarded as being the entity that Ireland looks to for it. During the dark days for the station in 2023, the station’s public service remit was repeatedly put forward as why the nation should be alarmed by the reputational damage to RTÉ. “Won’t somebody think of the children?” except this time it was…

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