Ian Mallon: Does RTÉ's outlay on sports rights reflect free-spending culture? 

RTÉ is unique, when compared to our most watched sporting markets in the UK and the US, where the value of specific deals is generally available.

A GAAGO TV screen pitchside. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

IT WILL be some time before new RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst makes his way past the troubled network’s payments scandal and into the sports department.

But when he does, perhaps a greater misuse of public money awaits, one which will dwarf the €345k paid through unorthodox methods to Ryan Tubridy.