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The alarm bells began ringing in Catherine Martin’s head last Sunday when she read that Rory Coveney’s controversial exit package had been approved not only by RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst but its chair, Siún Ní Raghallaigh.
A typical first-time buyer, paying average rent in Ireland while earning an above-average salary, will now need to save for over 15 years for a home deposit.
Whatever Breda O’Keeffe did with the €450,000 she got in that exit package from RTÉ, it doesn’t seem to have been ploughed into her new consultancy business.
Cash-strapped RTÉ has spent more than €80,000 on public relations advice for its board on the scandals that have plagued the broadcaster in the past year.
Sir — I am writing to you on behalf of my gorgeous nana, Kathleen Corrigan, who passed away on Friday at 99 years young, only a few months shy of her 100th birthday.