Fresh calls on RTÉ officials to consider positions

Further calls have been made on RTÉ chairman Tom Savage and director general Noel Curran to resign as a result of the Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds.

Three members of the joint Oireachtas committee on communications urged either or both to consider their positions.

Senator John Whelan urged Mr Savage to resign amid claims that the RTÉ chairman had shafted the station’s head of news, Ed Mulhall in a “pre-emptive and unfair” newspaper interview last year before the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland had issued the findings of its inquiry into the programme.