Dee Forbes

After six meetings, more than 25 hours of committee hearings and plenty of media coverage, the short answer is yes

Dee Forbes and Munster Rugby, Garda College lands controversy, Eir CEO’s attack on ComReg, National Lottery could be on the move, GAA’s no-cash policy, and higher education headhunters

RTÉ crisis: Tubridy not being paid an RTÉ salary as of this week, DG Kevin Bakhurst tells PAC

New director general Bakhurst and chair Ní Raghallaigh to push back against presenter’s evidence, claiming ‘pressing need’ to correct record

Catch-up: Three weeks of the RTE payment scandal, dozens of documents and hours of committee meetings

Presenter and his agent Noel Kelly are expected to face in-depth questions over payments scandal

Public service experience of new director general fuels his first moves but real meat needs to be put on bones of plans

The complete split between the board and executive and the damage to the brand point to trouble ahead. Ordinary employees of RTÉ and the concept of public sector broadcasting need to be protected

Catherine Martin has been a quietly revolutionary minister for the arts, the best we’ve had since Michael D Higgins a quarter of a century ago

Committee members told by Oireachtas legal advisers the two witnesses are under no obligation to appear

RTÉ payments crisis: Revelations of a them-and-us culture at the top in RTÉ are not new

Not content with seeing Tubridy’s career in tatters, his louder critics are demanding that he should never be allowed to work again. Time for some perspective

Any Other Business: McKillen becomes Vietnam’s honorary consul, RTE Player on Sky, the NTMA and bonuses, and Euronext’s plea on share trading tax

Inside Politics: Minister for Media Catherine Martin to meet with senior RTÉ executives today as questions remain around governance at the station

Broadcaster says three additional accounts exist, the same type used to make secret payments to Tubridy

What has been revealed in relation to RTÉ over recent days ‘would shame the most extravagant of Celtic Tiger era excesses’, says Sinn Féin TD

Minister for Public Expenditure says future decisions on the ‘size and scale’ of the national broadcaster will be driven by ‘what is right’ for public broadcasting

Catherine Martin will seek approval for external auditors to examine the troubled broadcaster’s books

Fintan O’Toole writes that RTÉ abandoned public interest during Covid, while David McWilliams explains how Ireland became the most expensive country in Europe

Larry Bass says there has been ‘a tsunami of lost commercial revenue’ in sector even before recent outrcry over secret payments

Dublin talent agent, who played a key role in funneling hidden payments to Ryan Tubridy, was considered more powerful than broadcaster’s own director general

The next focus will be the basis on which the broadcaster decided to write down Turbridy’s earnings between 2017 and 2019 by €120,000

A week of controversy over covert payments to Ryan Tubridy has raised many questions about the future of the national broadcaster

This sorry episode shows how far the crassness of consumer culture has eroded the instincts of good citizenship

Center Parcs announces it will not continue €295,000 sponsorship deal for The Ryan Tubridy Show in another blow for RTÉ

Committee this week got extension of its remit to include RTE

Oireachtas committee interrogations, secret payments, a 'slush fund', sports junkets - the national broadcaster endured a torrid week

Broadcaster has a long history of paying large sums to its star presenters while running up hefty institutional deficits

Folly of judging somebody’s worth by size of their remuneration is lesson Ireland has repeatedly been taught, yet never seems to learn

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Moya Doherty, Adrian Lynch, Siún Ní Raghallaigh and more answered questions by politicians on Thursday

‘Possible’ Ryan Tubridy knew questions were coming when he announced Late Late Show departure, PAC told

RTE used fund to pay €150,000 to Ryan Tubridy, causing a charge of €230,760 against station to be registered in account

Inside Politics: New facets of the controversy keep emerging, further corroding trust in RTÉ and compounding damage done with Government

From silos to ‘top talent’ and super-agents to company cars, all the insights - and remaining questions - from the exchanges

Untenable for Ryan Tubridy to return on morning radio show while controversy unresolved, says State broadcaster

Politicians angrily questioned station management’s line that departed former director general Dee Forbes was the only one to know years of public declarations about Tubridy’s pay were wrong

RTÉ Tuesday statement sheds ‘some light’ on what transpired but many questions remain, says Varadkar

Senior figures from national broadcaster subjected to hours of detailed questioning by politicians about payments to Ryan Tubridy

Patrick Kielty deal will be discussed by remuneration committee on Friday, politicians told