Olympic Council attacks RTÉ ‘soapbox pundits’

THE Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has launched a blistering attack on RTÉ over aspects of their Games coverage in August.

The OCI media officer Jack McGouran expressed concern at a late night production and criticised station bosses for allowing "soapbox pundits make negative, egotistical, bizarre, out of touch and out of order comments."

He added that many athletes had been upset by the coverage.