IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Barry Duggan and Craig Hughes
Tuesday February 07 2012
CHARLIE Bird has said RTE has been enormously damaged by the ‘Prime Time Investigates’ documentary which defamed a Galway priest.
Addressing journalism students at the University of Limerick, the long-serving RTE reporter said the documentary had been a huge jolt for everybody working at the state broadcaster.
Last year, in a programme entitled ‘Mission to Prey’, RTE falsely stated that Fr Kevin Reynolds had raped a Kenyan woman and fathered a child by her while working as a missionary.
Subsequently, the state broadcaster agreed to settle a High Court action taken by Fr Reynolds.
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