Greens take RTÉ to court over conference ‘snub’

THE Green Party is taking RTÉ to the High Court over the station’s refusal to broadcast the party’s annual conference live on television later this month.

RTÉ also confirmed last night that audience figures for party conferences invariably attract only half the normal number of viewers for programmes normally broadcast at that time.

The Greens claim that RTÉ is deliberately excluding them from their live coverage, but RTÉ says that the party does not have enough TDs or support to justify the airtime.