Not happening
This is the kind of delusional Disneyland insanity that the deeply stupid experience between buying a €100 million Euromillions lottery ticket and checking out the results.
What the numbers now clearly show is that the relationship between RTÉ and the Irish public has fundamentally changed.
‘No veto’
My colleague Ben asked the Minister, yesterday, how she could look the Irish people in the face and defend this situation. The answer, of course, is that she cannot, and she will not try to.
“Slammed” the government.
Media Minister Catherine Martin is grilled on the government’s plan to bail out RTÉ, despite the broadcaster wasting the public funding it already had.
If the Pope – this one or his predecessors – had any interest in saving the church in Ireland, he should have sacked every Irish Bishop twenty years ago and installed people from outside the country to completely reform the Irish Church, root and branch.
Also: The media embraces a role as propagandist, the EU tries to solve housing, and why “The Boys” is top telly.
Staying on the right side of the line between steadfast civil disobedience and outright thuggery is a duty that all those who take on the responsibility of leading these protests will have to take on.
RTE, for whatever reason, appears to believe that one of its core duties as a national broadcaster is to advance “the message” on climate change at every available opportunity
Taxpayer funds