Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin said today that he is gravely concerned by the findings of the Broadcasting Aurthority's Investigation into an RTÉ programme.

More heads are expected to roll at RTÉ after yesterday’s scathing report on its handling of the Prime Time Investigates documentary which made false and damaging allegations against Fr Kevin Reynolds.

RTÉ was fined €200,000 by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland for the controversial Prime Time Investigates programme, which seriously libelled Fr Kevin Reynolds in what the station described as “one of the most significant errors” in its history.

The Mission to Prey programme was Aoife Kavanagh’s first for PrimeTime Investigates. For her and others on the strand, it would be the last.

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.

The RTÉ Authority was yesterday fined €200,000 by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland over serious breaches of the Broadcasting Act.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has recommended that RTÉ be fined €200,000 after finding that the broadcaster breached the Broadcasting Act in its 'Prime Time Investigates' programme which libelled Fr Kevin Reynolds.

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has described RTÉ's handling of the Fr Kevin Reynolds case as a "debacle".

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.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has admitted that legislation did not prevent it from interviewing Fr Kevin Reynolds as part of its inquiry into the Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed the Galway priest.

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.

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

THE management of information, its manipulation to create a specific impression or damage an individual, the security and integrity of online data, the role of social media in influencing public and political agendas, their role in elections, myriad issues surrounding the rights of those who generate information for commercial purposes and an individual’s right to online privacy are the subject of growing, if belated, public attention.

Catholic leaders have launched a stinging attack on organisers of the IFTAs for presenting an award to suspended RTÉ series Prime Time Investigates.

If there’s one issue that fires Irish passions, it’s how the media treats religion.

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 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.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has been criticised for comments he made following the broadcast of a defamatory 'Prime Time Investigates' programme about Fr Kevin Reynolds.

RTÉ has denied claims by the family of another missionary featured in the Prime Time Investigates documentary Mission to Prey that the allegations it makes against their relative are incorrect, unsubstantiated, and prejudiced.

EVERY media organisation, this one included, has had to face the awful consequences of libelling individuals.

The Government has given an independent inquiry team two months to determine the facts which led to the defamation of priest Fr Kevin Reynolds by RTE.

RTÉ is agreed to pay compensatory and aggravated damages to Fr Kevin Reynolds after he settled his action for defamation arising from the broadcaster’s Prime Time Investigates programme, “Mission to Prey”.

HUNDREDS of well- wishers gave a standing ovation to a priest who returned to his parish yesterday after being cleared of allegations he fathered a child in Kenya 30 years ago.

Two paternity tests have shown that a Co Galway-based priest, featured in an RTÉ 'Prime Time Investigates' programme, is not the father of a Kenyan woman, the High Court has been told.