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.

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.

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.

The National Union of Journalists said yesterday it was not satisfied with aspects of the investigation process and did not accept many of the conclusions reached by investigator Anna Carragher in respect of its members, Aoife Kavanagh and Ken O’Shea.

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".

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 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.

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

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 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.

PRIME Time presenter Mark Little has insisted he has taken a year-long leave of absence from RTÉ to focus on new digital media opportunities, despite reports of a major row over his comparatively low salary at the station.