IRELAND
The Irish Times

CARL O’BRIEN, Chief Reporter

RTÉ IS to be fined €200,000 following a report by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland which found that the Mission to Prey programme was unfair and a breach of Fr Kevin Reynolds’s privacy.

The authority’s statement of findings, as well as an independent report by former BBC Northern Ireland controller Anna Carragher, were published yesterday.

The programme falsely claimed that Fr Reynolds sexually abused a young girl and fathered her child while a missionary in Kenya.