RTÉ to release files on debate

RTÉ has to give businessman Sean Gallagher certain documents sought by him for his action against the national broadcaster arising from the ‘Tweetgate’ incident during the presidential election campaign, the High Court has ruled.

Mr Gallagher sought documents including one created between the date of the broadcast on October 24, 2011, of the Frontline debate and November 18, 2012, when a report of an internal RTÉ review of the broadcast was published.

RTÉ opposed the action. It claimed the request was too broad and amounted to a “trawl” of documentation that would put the station to extra cost.