Terry Prone: RTÉ used to be a glamorous workplace. Where did it go wrong?

Our national broadcaster used to be a glamorous workplace that attracted the best talent in the business. Terry Prone looks at where it all started to go wrong in recent years

Tsunamis, unlike hurricanes, don’t get names. If they did, the one that hit the State broadcaster would be named Ryan Tubridy. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Symbolic, it was, the move from the GPO to the Radio Centre in Donnybrook at the start of the 1970s. Symbolic, and shocking. 

Shocking, to leave the long, long corridor on the top floor of the historic city centre building and step into the most modern structure, with the studios built underground, all the better for soundproofing purposes.