Four hours of scrutiny before the Oireachtas Media Committee ranged from the state broadcaster’s finances and malaise to radical property proposals.
Deep inside the broadcaster’s latest data dump lie years of internal documents highlighting issues with procurement, tendering, unapproved spending and rogue taxi bills. Here’s what we found.
The state broadcaster’s top sources of revenue are the licence fee and TV advertising, but both were in decline last year. As RTÉ heads into another bail-out, its governance record will come under increased scrutiny.
The interim report into RTÉ’s barter account describes a poorly documented system, where unauthorised people could use the account unchecked.
The commercial deals of RTÉ stars have come under scrutiny since the Tubridy payments debacle kicked off, yet the station is now approving ads for expensive cosmetic procedures on presenters' personal social media accounts.
Just when RTÉ and its highest-paid presenter were about to extinguish the pay controversy that had engulfed them, he decided to re-ignite it. For his new boss Kevin Bakhurst, it was too much.
Ryan Tubridy started working for RTÉ at the age of 12. Last night his career at the station was on the brink, after talks were dramatically ended by new director general Kevin Bakhurst.
Kevin Bakhurst, the new director general of RTÉ, said recently a new deal with Ryan Tubridy was at a “delicate stage.” But what will that look like?
The second Grant Thornton report into Ryan Tubridy's earnings between 2017-2019 has been released and shows a determination on the part of the broadcaster to keep his earnings under a fictional half a million euro.
Noel Kelly has emerged as a central agent to broadcast stars through the RTÉ payments controversy. But what does Ireland's other super-agent, Louis Walsh, think of the whole saga – and how does he see it ending?
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