O’Flynn denies threat to RTÉ

FIANNA Fáil TD Noel O’Flynn has insisted he was not making “an implied threat” to RTÉ when faced with questions about a parliamentary trip he led to South America at the taxpayer’s expense.

But Mr O’Flynn, chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, was criticised by one committee member yesterday for the way he handled the interview.

Labour Senator Kathleen O’Meara, who was not part of the delegation to South America, disassociated herself from his remarks.