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Simon Harris and Catherine Martin met up last week. The agenda was ostensibly to discuss issues in her multi-faceted Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. No doubt the Taoiseach had to feign interest in the basic income for the arts and other worthy ventures. But the real purpose of the meeting was to discuss where things are at with RTÉ.

David Murphy has been appointed as the new Economics and Public Affairs Correspondent for RTÉ News.

In the 1960s, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid denounced her as “mad, bad and dangerous”. Distinguished historian Robert Savage wrote that “some believed she would eventually become director general of RTÉ”.

Former workers at RTÉ have spoken about the “fear” and “stress” they faced working at the state broadcaster under bogus self-employment practices.

Actors in Fair City feel “expendable” and like “second-class employees” as filming is set to stop this summer to free up technical staff to cover sports events, politicians will be told today.