IRELAND
Irish Central
By
PADDY CLANCY,
Irish Voice Reporter
Published Thursday, April 5, 2012
Major changes are being introduced at RTE over its libel of a Catholic priest and, separately, there are to be redundancies and cutbacks in a bid to save €25million.
On Tuesday afternoon RTE’s head of current affairs Ed Mulhall announced his retirement and the editor of Prime Time Investigates — which libeled the priest — Ken O’Shea has resigned from the program over the libel.
Father Kevin Reynolds is understood to have received a settlement of €1 million for the libel.
The program, which was broadcast last May, falsely accused Reynolds of raping a minor while working as a missionary in Africa and fathering a child by her. Mulhall had had been director of news and managing director of news and current affairs for a total of 14 years.
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