Virgin Media boss demands removal of RTÉ from commercial advertising

The boss of Ireland’s leading commercial TV station, Virgin Media Television, is demanding RTÉ’s removal from the commercial advertising market.

Virgin managing director Paul Farrell has written to Media Minister Catherine Martin seeking the "divestment” of its non-public service broadcasting assets.

In his letter, according to the Sunday Independent, Farrell warned that if "the opacity between public money and commercial income remains, we will have no option but to review any remedies available to us ...