RTÉ inquiry into author’s credibility

THE RTÉ Authority yesterday heard the most senior executive in television deliver a “frank assessment” of the checks carried out on the controversial High Society series.

And it seems the investigation being carried out by the national broadcaster into the series on middle-class cocaine use is much deeper and thorough than previously indicated, and is being personally overseen by managing director Noel Curran.

Serious doubts have been cast on the credibility of the presenter of the documentary Justine Delaney Wilson following contradictory accounts from her as to whether she recorded an interview with a government minister, or took the details down by hand.