The Courts Service has revealed RTE’s bill for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds' legal team was more than €150,000.

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.

Former presidential candidate Sean Gallagher has compared his treatment by RTÉ to that of defamed priest Father Kevin Reynolds after he complained about the broadcast of a bogus tweet.

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

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

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 Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte is meeting the board of RTE this morning to discuss the BAI report into the libeling of 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland inquiry into the Prime Time Investigates “Mission to Prey” programme has been concluded.

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

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

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.

RESIGNATIONS in RTÉ are not being ruled out after the Government announced an investigation into the defamation of Fr Kevin Reynolds by the national broadcaster.

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

The Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has announced an independent inquiry into the case of Father Kevin Reynolds who was defamed by RTE's 'Prime Time' programme.

RTÉ’s ham-fisted debacle in wrongly accusing Fr Reynolds of serious crime begs the question how many more similar programmes by RTÉ castigating religious orders were properly researched and indeed in their presentation of said programmes were they just and fair in their treatment of alleged crimes?

THE Association of Catholic Priests has called on RTÉ to explain why it proceeded with a defamatory broadcast against Galway-based priest Fr Kevin Reynolds despite the priest’s constant denials of sexual abuse.

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”.

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.

AN investigation of the final ministry of deceased paedophile priest Fr Noel Reynolds has found no new allegations of child sex abuse.

A HOSPITAL where a paedophile priest worked is to contact dozens of families to investigate whether patients were abused there.