RTÉ board to consider Prime Time reviews

THE results of two reports into the controversial RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds are due to be considered by the RTÉ Authority next week.

The RTÉ board is to meet on December 15 when it will hold a “full discussion” on both an internal review and an independent investigation conducted by Press Ombudsman John Horgan.

RTÉ was forced to pay a six-figure sum, believed to be well in excess of €1m, as a result of the programme on May 23, which falsely accused Fr Reynolds, the parish priest of Ahascragh, Co Galway, of raping a teenage girl, while working as a missionary in Kenya, and fathering her child.