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Recriminations at RTÉ over DG appointment process leak to Business Post

Board members call leak to BusinessPost.ie ‘a blatant breach of confidentiality’, ‘shocking’ and ‘utterly disappointing’

The RTÉ board subsequently unanimously agreed to appoint Bakhurst as the new director general

The RTÉ board was plunged into recrimination last month after details about the confidential director general appointment process were leaked, new documents reveal.

Such was the concern about the breach of duty that Siún Ní Raghallaigh, chair of the RTÉ Board, brought in a senior legal adviser at Arthur Cox to lecture board members about “their obligations and duties as board members under the Broadcasting Act, the Code of Governance for State Bodies and the ...