Letters to the Editor: Protecting our public service broadcasting

'RTÉ is a crucially important organisation enjoying the enduring loyalty and affection of the general public. That is why people are exercised about recent baffling events.'

One of the most important public bodies in the country was bogged down for more than a week splitting hairs, taking legal advice, and drip-feeding the truth to the Dàil and Ireland’s Media Minister Catherine Martin. This is a news organisation.A nuclear power is in a state of paramilitary flux and political instability in Russia; the climate crisis is causing heatwaves in Western Europe; the HSE is allowing children with scoliosis to endure pain and suffering; An Bord Pleanàla is in a state of chaos; the sixth mass extinction is being debated at the European Parliament; meanwhile RTÉ is being bogged down lifting receipts out of shoe boxes at Montrose.

Let us all take a moment to consider how tear-your-hair-out frustrating that must be for the hundreds of talented and excellent people who form the general staff at RTÉ. If Ryan Tubridy and his agent will not attend the Public Accounts Committee to speed this atrocious demoralising mess along to clarity and finality then we really should consider hiring people with different attitudes to the business of public service broadcasting.