Tributes to former RTÉ chairman Tom Savage

Tributes have been paid to Tom Savage, former chairman of the RTÉ Authority, who died yesterday following a short illness at the age of 76.

RTÉ director-general Dee Forbes led the tributes to Mr Savage, a former priest who had fulfilled a variety of roles within the national broadcaster over the decades, including as founder-producer of flagship radio programme Morning Ireland.

He was founder director of The Communications Clinic, which he established with his wife, Terry Prone, and is father to broadcaster Anton Savage. He also acted as communications adviser to former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.