Fianna Fáil took revenge on RTÉ, says Mansergh

FIANNA Fáil were settling scores with RTÉ when disgraced former Communications Minister Ray Burke helped the rival Century Radio, a former adviser to Charles Haughey said last night.

Martin Mansergh, who worked as a key Fianna Fáil advisor for 20 years and who is now a senator, said he was not proud to admit his party was taking revenge on the State broadcaster because the party leadership believed it had cost them the 1989 election.

But he said the Flood Tribunal examination of the circumstances surrounding decisions taken to favour the ill-fated commercial station, Century Radio, failed to take that political context into account.