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Eamon Ryan: Catherine Martin did a superb job handling RTÉ crisis

Green Party leader says one of the government’s most pressing tasks this year is addressing the future funding of broadcast and media in Ireland

Eamon Ryan, Green Party leader and environment minister and media minister Catherine Martin. Ryan said Martin had done a ‘really good job managing her portfolio.’ Picture: PA

Green Party leader and minister for the environment Eamon Ryan has praised media minister Catherine Martin’s handling of the RTÉ crisis.

Mr Ryan also said addressing the funding of media in Ireland would be the “most critical decision” taken by the government in the first quarter of 2024.

Ms Martin, who is the Greens’ deputy leader, was at the forefront of the political response when the national broadcaster RTÉ became embroiled in a financial crisis ...