Twenty-four minutes. Twenty-four painful, empty minutes. That’s precisely how long RTÉ devoted to RTÉ during the first half of RTÉ’s flagship radio news programme This Week on Sunday. RTÉ put a lot of questions to RTÉ at the start of the segment. In writing. They got a few terse one-liners from RTÉ in response. In writing. Simply saying that RTÉ wasn’t prepared to answer RTÉ’s questions.
RTÉ asked RTÉ to put forward a named selection of RTÉ personnel for interview. RTÉ declined to put forward anyone to be interviewed by RTÉ. It was like that old joke about the bird that flew in ever-decreasing circles until it inevitably disappeared up its own anatomy.
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