Profile: Dee Forbes - Director general at RTÉ

Hard decisions loom for the RTÉ chief as financial pressure mounts

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Name: Dee Forbes

Age:52

Appearance: sharp-looking media executive

Newsworthiness: the ongoing financial woes at RTÉ, where Forbes is director general, threaten its future

In the autumn of 2016, Dee Forbes was two months into her new role as RTÉ director general when the first big test came along – a public forum showdown with her broadcasting industry peers. Despite a wealth of experience in media and a stint on the board of ...