RTÉ pays out €20k over John McGuirk linking Éirígí to journalist murder

John McGuirk made his claims on the March 2 episode of 'Prime Time'
RTÉ has had to pay €20,000 to charity after a radical Republican political group were falsely accused of murder.
During an episode of
on March 2, right-wing commentator John McGuirk incorrectly claimed that Éirígí was responsible for the killing of a journalist (a reference to Lyra McKee, who was shot in Derry by the dissident republican group Saoradh) and that Éirígí "endorses terrorism".