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Channelling change: Siún Ní Raghallaigh faces the challenge of knocking RTÉ into shape

Siún Ní Raghallaigh, new chair of the national broadcaster’s board, has a wealth of experience and an undisputed appetite for challenge – and that’s certainly what awaits at the state broadcaster

Siún Ní Raghallaigh will take a pivotal role in RTÉ’s attempts to reinvent itself at a point when the media landscape is undergoing enormous change. Illustration: Peter Hanan

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Name and role: Siún Ní Raghallaigh, chair of RTÉ

Age: 64

Appearance: shying away from the cameras, while thinking about what’s in front of them

Newsworthiness: the founding management team member of TG4 and former chief executive of Ardmore Studios has been appointed as the new chair of the board of RTÉ

In 2000, RTÉ had a problem that was about to blow a big hole in its television schedule. The national broadcaster had ...