Elaine Loughlin: As RTÉ debacle rumbles on, what other bombshells are passing us by?

Incoming RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst, interim deputy director general Adrian Lynch, and board chair Siun Ni Raghallaigh after a meeting with Arts and Media Minister Catherine Martin. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

There are some who must be delighted with the cover that the RTÉ scandal has provided.

With journalists, politicians, and the general public obsessively tuning in to every twist and turn in the unfolding saga over at the State broadcaster, others have been dropping what usually would be bombshells, but which have barely made a thud.