RTÉ chief stands over High Society cocaine claims

RTÉ’s director general yesterday said he stood over the contentious allegation made by the High Society documentary that a politician admitted snorting cocaine.

Cathal Goan told the Oireachtas Communications Committee that senior management at RTÉ believe the claims made by author Justine Delaney-Wilson — including admissions by a politician and an airline pilot that they regularly used cocaine.

But Mr Goan, the managing director of television in RTÉ, Noel Curran, and the director of current affairs, Ed Mulhall, said they did not know the identity of the politician.