Presenters’ high salaries ‘RTÉ’s fault’

High salaries paid to RTÉ presenters were the station’s fault and it was up to the station to ‘fix it’, RTÉ director general, Noel Curran admitted yesterday.

Mr Curran said they were on target to achieve 30% in cuts to major presenters, and in some instances that figure will be closer to 40%.

“We were paying some of our presenters too much, that was our fault and ours to fix. We have delivered on what we said we would and we have cut, I believe, more than any other profession I can see…