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The scandal over payments to RTÉ stars is the daddy of all controversies for the national broadcaster, but there have been others. Here is a flavour of five more major controversies.
Fifty years ago on 17 January 1972 seven Republican internees escaped from the British prison ship, HMS ‘Maidstone’, moored at the coal wharf in Belfast docks, and swam to freedom. They achieved fa.
RODNEY Rice was on just his second day working for RTÉ when the call went out for someone to report on Northern Ireland's fledgling civil rights movement.