RTÉ bosses to be quizzed on cocaine documentary

RTÉ bosses are expected to face a grilling over the High Society cocaine documentary when they appear before the Oireachtas Communications Committee today.

The director-general of the state broadcaster and his senior officials will be quizzed about the editorial process that approved the programme.

The documentary maker, Justine Delaney-Wilson, claimed that a senior politician had admitted regularly using cocaine.

She also claimed a pilot, a nun and people from many top professions had admitted using the drug.

However, it has since emerged that RTÉ had no audiotapes to back up the claims and relied on Ms Delaney-Wilson's notes.

Ms Delaney-Wilson says she has destroyed the tapes.

Yesterday, an internal RTÉ report found that editorial controls were not sufficiently exercised before the programme was aired.