Dion Fanning: RTÉ's staging of Toy Show musical extraordinary given its usual aversion to creativity 

If RTÉ stands for anything, it stands for saying no to crazy ideas and, indeed, saying no to any idea at all, writes Dion Fanning

If RTÉ's Toy Show: The Musical was to have any chance, it needed no involvement from RTÉ. Picture: Andres Poveda

The urban myth that Father Ted was rejected by RTÉ has always concealed a more damning truth: RTÉ was not approached in the first place. 

Bringing the idea to RTÉ, the show’s co-creator Arthur Mathews once said, would have made as much sense as bringing it to Waterford Crystal.