A renewed media committee quizzed the broadcaster’s equally refreshed leadership line-up one year on from the Ryan Tubridy-fronted payments controversy, but still ignored the crucial commercial aspect of its model.
The public service broadcaster's website is the most widely read online news source in the country, yet does not fall under Coimisiún na Meán's watch. The Government is now advancing a bill to change this.
The project will now likely come before the newly formed PAC, while the media minister said that the broadcaster had "ample opportunity" to flag the €3.6 million project write-down to the Government.
A multi-million euro project to overhaul RTÉ's finance and HR systems failed to fully deliver. Director general Kevin Bakhurst was brought before the media minister earlier this month to explain.
A new arts department report gives a blow-by-blow account on what happened on the overly ambitious project, where the problems lay, and whose head may be on the block over the fiasco.
Mari Hurley was announced as the national broadcaster’s new chief financial officer in March. A lot has changed since then, but much also remains to play for.
As the potential cost of PRSI contributions mounts over hundreds of workers incorrectly registered as self-employed in the past, the state broadcaster is taking a third such case to the High Court.
The media minister says the €725 million put aside for the next three years is enough for the broadcaster to implement its new strategic plan. But is it enough to finally put the pantomime of the last year to bed?
Tommie Gorman accumulated friends because he understood people. And he understood people because he cared about them. It is what made him such a brilliant journalist, and a remarkable man.
The broadcaster has set a new strategy that involves downsizing, moving away from Montrose and a shift to external production. But will it have the finances to match the ambition?
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