Colin Sheridan: Holding RTÉ to account — why its coverage of Palestine raises serious journalistic concerns

RTÉ’s ‘gotcha’ moment backfires as Francesca Albanese dismantles its Gaza coverage — one uncomfortable silence at a time

While much of Fran McNulty's 10-minute interview was wasted on Francesca Albanese, above,  having to correct the language of the interviewer, it was in that withering nano-second we saw what happens when arrogance meets grace. Picture: Brian Lawless

"If you come at the king,” Omar Little told his would-be assassins in The Wire, “you’d best not miss.” 

His words rang like the bells of the Angelus last week, as RTÉ’s flagship news programme took verbal aim at Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, who was giving her four millionth interview about the continuing genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.