The RTÉ board has apologised to businessman Sean Gallagher over the tweet broadcast on The Frontline which badly damaged his presidential election campaign.
The board said it accepted the findings of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which this week upheld a complaint by Mr Gallagher about the show and the Today with Pat Kenny radio programme.
In a statement issued after a special meeting to discuss the issue today, the board repeated an earlier apology by director general Noel Curran about the programmes.
The board said it was reassured that the Mr Curran was taking the necessary steps to ensure that RTÉ will have in place rules, regulations, protocols and best practice to reduce the risk of any recurrence of the failures that occurred.
The board said it and the director general shared a commitment to ensuring that the restoration of public confidence in RTÉ's journalism progresses without delay.
The authority found The Frontline last October was unfair to Mr Gallagher because it failed to clarify the provenance of the tweet wrongly attributed to the campaign of Sinn Fein candidate Martin McGuinness. The Today With Pat Kenny show broadcast the following day exacerbated this unfairness by failing to clarify the issue.
Mr Gallagher, a Co Louth businessman, had gone into the debate a clear leader in the presidential election opinion polls but ended up finishing second to Michael D Higgins.
