RTE defends report on prison site purchase

RTE’s Prime Time programme tonight said it rejected Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s comments that its report on the Mountjoy Jail relocation site was grossly misleading and insisted that it stood over the accuracy and fairness of the coverage.

Mr McDowell today said Prime Time’s 10-minute report on the €30m north Co Dublin site by RTE’s current affairs flagship was discussed at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting and he had written a letter of complaint to each RTE Authority member.