Another big loss spells more trouble for RTE

After its latest set of disappointing results, the station is again faced with a funding crisis

Dee Forbes, RTÉs new director general, faces a big task to turn the stations ailing finances around

‘Licence fee evasion is an ongoing scourge,” said Pat Rabbitte, the then minister of communications, in July 2014.

The following year, his successor, Alex White, declared: “We need a new way to pay for public service broadcasting.”

The latest occupant of the hot seat, Denis Naughten, said last week that the licence fee evasion had to be tackled as a matter of urgency.

“I will bring proposals to government later this year that ...