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.

The chairman of RTÉ has said he still finds it inexplicable that the hugely damaging 'Mission to Prey' programme in which Father Kevin Reynolds was defamed was allowed to air.

THE botched handling of Prime Time Investigates programme which libelled Fr Kevin Reynolds could provide the ingredients for a Shakespearean tragi-comedy were its fallout not so serious.

A HEAVY price has been paid by Aoife Kavanagh.

A new cross-party watchdog should be set up to hold RTE to account, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

The board of RTÉ has been given one week to file a report on all steps it is taking to prevent a repeat of the defamatory 'Mission to Prey' programme.

The board of RTÉ has said there is no excuse for the defamation of a missionary priest wrongly accused of rape by the once-flagship journalism 'Prime Time Investigates' programme.

The RTÉ board is expected to reject criticism by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland that it failed to waive legal privilege for an inquiry into the Prime Time Investigates programme at a special meeting with Pat Rabbitte, the communications minister, today.

The RTÉ board is in the firing line after Pat Rabbitte admitted his confidence in it was “shaken”.

Fr Kevin Reynolds’ offer to take a paternity test was not communicated to the RTÉ legal team prior to the broadcast that falsely claimed he had fathered a child while working as a missionary in Kenya.

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.

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has criticised RTÉ's 'Mission to Prey' programme today, calling it a "shoddy, unprofessional, cavalier, damaging piece of work".

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has begun an inquiry into how documents from its investigations into the Fr Kevin Reynolds defamation scandal were leaked.

RTÉ has accused members of a media watchdog of undermining regulations after documents about the inquiry in the Fr Kevin Reynolds defamation scandal were leaked.

A priest defamed by RTÉ was not interviewed by the broadcasting watchdog during its investigation, it has emerged.

A solicitor for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds has dismissed a move by RTÉ to scrap the 'Prime Time Investigates' series as "probably cosmetic".

RTÉ has announced a radical overhaul of its news and current affairs structures days before the publication of a damning watchdog report into its broadcast of a defamatory Prime Time Investigates programme.

RTÉ’s award-winning current affairs series Prime Time Investigates has been taken off the air for good.

The Communications Minister has described RTÉ's response to a BAI report into the Prime Time Investigates programme, A Mission to Prey, as "very radical".

RTE’s award-winning current affairs series Prime Time Investigates has been taken off the air for good.

Ed Mulhall has retired as head of RTE's news and current affairs.

The Managing Director of RTÉ’s News and Current affairs division, Ed Mulhall, has retired from the organisation with effect from March 2012.

A report by the broadcasting watchdog into how an RTÉ programme defamed a Galway priest, Fr Kevin Reynolds, is expected to be published shortly.

The former controller of BBC Northern Ireland has been appointed to investigate the defamation of a priest on RTÉ.

THE results of two reports into the controversial RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds are due to be considered by the RTÉ Authority next week.

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 head of RTÉ has pledged to restore the “fundamental bond” of public trust in the state broadcaster in the wake of the Fr Kevin Reynolds libel controversy.

TWO of the most senior bosses in RTÉ news and current affairs are to step aside while a public inquiry investigates how the state broadcaster incorrectly accused a County Galway priest of raping an African woman and fathering a child with her.

RTÉ’s news and current affairs chief and a leading editor from the flagship investigative series 'Prime Time Investigates' have stepped down over the defamation of priest Kevin Reynolds.

RTÉ director general Cathal Goan is set to step down from his lucrative €320,000-plus a year post after completing a seven-year term.

GEORGE LEE can return to RTÉ on the same salary he left on and with his old title of editor.

SENIOR RTÉ managers have admitted unease that the Late Late Show allowed columnist Eoghan Harris to glorify Taoiseach Bertie Ahern a week before last year’s general election.

RTÉ’s director general yesterday said he stood over the contentious allegation made by the High Society documentary that a politician admitted snorting cocaine.

RTÉ’S crime correspondent Paul Reynolds has been awarded €60,000 in damages after winning a libel action against the head of the Garda Representative Association, PJ Stone, and the GRA’s official magazine, Garda Review.

ALMOST three quarters of staff in RTÉ earn less than €49,000 a year, according to figures released yesterday.

THE earnings of RTÉ’s leading stars will be definitively revealed to the public next year.

RTÉ bosses will have to defend the station’s news reporting record before an Oireachtas watchdog next month following the controversy over TV news anchorman Bryan Dobson’s PR work.

RTÉ director general Bob Collins is to retire seven months ahead of schedule. Mr Collins was due to finish his seven-year term next April. However, he announced yesterday that he would be leaving the organisation in October.