RTE analysts: the secret memo

YOU SAW, during the week, that GAA President Nickey Brennan took issue with RTE analysts for not offering fair and balanced analysis.

“While critical analysis is fair and reasonable,” said Nickey, “I think you are entitled to do that, the programme demands that you be reasonably critical of what is going on — I think that the person’s integrity must always be kept in shape,” he said.

“We want to make sure that if you are analysing a game and if you are being critical of any aspect of it, which of course you are entitled to do, that at least you are working from a position of knowledge and facts.”