RTE in Crisis

Analysis: RTÉ chair will struggle to cut costs with public scruinty of every exit deal

Terence O’Rourke has been brought in to cut costs at Monstrose as RTÉ looks to secure 400 redundancies

Terence O'Rourke (centre), the current chair of ESB and the new RTÉ chair, the media minister Catherine Martin and Kevin Bakhurst, RTÉ’s director general. Picture: Bryan Meade

Terence O’Rourke has been entrusted by Catherine Martin, the media minister, to get the national broadcaster back on track following its latest crisis.

The current chair of ESB has a lot in his intray. If the past few weeks are anything to go by, the trickiest task of all on his to-do list will be exit packages.

O’Rourke, a boardroom veteran, will have reviewed the events that led to the resignation of Siún Ní Raghallaigh, ...