RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst was told the details of a lucrative sweetheart deal for the station’s former head accountant last summer, but TDs had to wait another seven months to find out.
Carlow native Thomas Carroll ran a multimillion-euro prostitution network, which involved trafficking Nigerian women into Ireland and forcing them to work as prostitutes all over the country.
Some time in the next few weeks, RTÉ will publish the “earnings” of its 10 highest-paid presenters in 2022. For the first time in six years, the figures will actually be accurate, trustworthy and dependable. It’s a fact that sums up the predicament with anything said by the national broadcaster these days. After so many lies, there’s a credibility deficit. In an effort to put a particular poor-mouth slant on its finances, RTÉ management tried to play down the true figures from 2017 onwards and hence the public ended up getting fake news.
Within hours of a report revealing unorthodox payments of €225,000, the CEO of the organisation was being asked to resign by the board, the top-paid staff member was subsequently suspended, with management heads rolling within weeks.