Terry Prone: Mooney controversy not as wild as BBC’s case of mistaken identity

For Kevin Bakhurst, the Derek Mooney affair is very small potatoes indeed compared to the major on-air cock-up during his tenure at the BBC

RTÉ director-general Kevin Bakhurst at Leinster House after appearing before the media committee meeting examining the Derek Mooney payments controversy. Picture: Leah Farrell/ RollingNews.ie

Kevin Bakhurst got a bit ratty, last week, over the Derek Mooney re-boot. RTÉ did the computer thing — they turned Derek off and back on. They turned him off as a producer and back on as a presenter. 

Which the director general thought was a good move. He further thought going public about it was an exercise in openness and should have been warmly welcomed. Which neither media nor an Oireachtas Committee obliged him by doing.