Future of Media Commission backs Alan Rusbridger to stay on

Former 'Guardian' editor Alan Rusbridger received unanimous support from members of the Future of the Media Commission. File picture

Members of the Future of the Media Commission have "unanimously" backed former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to stay on.

Former Labour senator Máiría Cahill had asked Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the weekend to consider Mr Rusbridger's position on the commission after the  Guardian's former media editor, Roy Greenslade, revealed that he had secretly made contributions to the republican newspaper  An Phoblacht, under the pseudonym George King, and that he supported the IRA.