Watchdog reprimands Joe Duffy over interview

RTÉ broadcaster Joe Duffy has received a further reprimand by the broadcasting watchdog over his handling of an interview with the editor of a Catholic newspaper earlier this year.

The BAI’s compliance committee ruled the programme had lacked fairness, objectivity, and impartiality in contravention of the Broadcasting Act.

Fr McKevitt was interviewed by Duffy after he had penned an article in Alive which claimed the decision of the Taoiseach to introduce legislation to give effect to a ruling on abortion in Ireland by the European Court of Human Rights evoked comparisons with King Herod.