RTÉ Payments Scandal
Political neglect of RTÉ by governments just as much to blame as Montrose greed
Ministers must take a share of the responsibility for creating a system that prioritises commercial revenue over public interest, say experts
It’s been a week from hell for RTÉ, which is still reeling from the shock news of secret, under-the-counter payments to its top-paid star, Ryan Tubridy.
It’s a scandal that goes beyond the reputational to the existential. Patrick O’Donovan, a junior minister in the Department of Public Expenditure, last week said that the idea of licence fee reform was “dead in the water”.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar suggested that the mixing of licence fee money and ...
