IRELAND
The Irish Times

CARL O’BRIEN

ANALYSIS: RTÉ FACES a major challenge in re-establishing its trust with viewers who have come to expect high standards from the national broadcaster.

The damage is in the detail. It’s one thing to say RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme was unfair and a breach of Fr Kevin Reynolds’s privacy. We have known that for months.

But it’s the sheer extent of failings – both individually and collectively – that make for shocking reading.

Former BBC Northern Ireland executive Anna Carragher investigated the programme for the Broadcast Authority of Ireland and has documented a series of failures that make it difficult to understand how a team with such a good reputation could allow the programme to be broadcast.