Mick Clifford: Rock-steady Kevin Bakhurst faces a whole set of challenges as RTÉ's new boss

Remembered for the way he handled multiple crises at RTÉ, newly-appointed director general Kevin Bakhurst will need all those skills in today's utterly changed media landscape
Mick Clifford: Rock-steady Kevin Bakhurst faces a whole set of challenges as RTÉ's new boss

Kevin Bakhurst was RTÉ's director of news and current affairs and deputy DG a decade ago. His approach back then is needed all the more now. Picture: Steve Langan

If Kevin Bakhurst was starting out again as director general of RTÉ he wouldn’t start from here. 

Last Tuesday, the 57-year-old Englishman was confirmed as the successor to outgoing DG, Dee Forbes. With his shoes barely under his new desk, the appointment has already been coated in controversy. 

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