Further calls have been made on RTÉ chairman Tom Savage and director general Noel Curran to resign as a result of the Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds.

RTÉ is to submit quarterly reports to Pat Rabbitte, the communications minister, on an overhaul of its standards in reporting.

Heads could roll as Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte confronts the board of the RTÉ Authority tomorrow over the Prime Time Investigates programme Mission To Prey.

THERE is some irony in the fact the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has published its report into RTÉ’s Mission to Prey fiasco the very week the BBC is being applauded for its exposé into Cardinal Seán Brady’s handling of sex abuse allegations.

Misjudgments by individuals combined with systemic failures led to RTÉ’s grave error to wrongly accuse a priest of fathering the child of a teenage girl he was accused of raping.

YESTERDAY marked the centenary of the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons at Westminster. We are beginning a decade of commemoration lasting until the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 2022.

SOME people might like to knock the Late Late Show but its audience on a Friday night remains rock solid.

THE egregious libel of Fr. Kevin Reynolds is the nadir of RTÉ’s long tradition of broadcasting, but the increasingly vitriolic levels of abuse, directed towards the station, are hard to fathom.

THE Catholic Church is facing yet another abuse scandal after a series of Irish priests were accused of raping and abusing young children and teenagers while working as missionaries in Africa over the past three decades.

MARY HANAFIN denied the Government had “turned a blind eye” to social welfare fraud over the past decade.

MOST of us want to believe that we live in a fairly decent society where the rights of everyone are respected.

GARDAÍ have been accused by a Government minister of torturing a man in their custody and of lying in a judge’s courtroom.