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RTÉ will adopt Press Ombudsman recommendations

The State broadcaster held a meeting this week to discuss the Prime Time Investigates programme A Mission to Prey, which was found to have defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds.

RTÉ HAS SAID it will adopt the Press Ombudsman John Horgan’s recommendations for improved editorial processes and safeguards around investigative journalism programming in the wake of a defamatory Prime Time Investigates programme.

The Board of RTÉ reviewed the state broadcaster’s internal and external investigations arising from the Prime Time Investigates programme A Mission to Prey, and watched presentations made by the Director General and by Professor John Horgan about the making of the programme.

The Board also accepted the request by the BAI that all of RTÉ’s investigations and recommendations should be kept confidential until the BAI’s own statutory inquiry is completed in early 2012.

In the run-up to the completion of the inquiry, RTÉ said it is “to adopt and implement specific recommendations made by Professor Horgan for improved editorial processes and safeguards around investigative journalism programming”.

It described these as “interim internal steps” and said they will be reviewed in the light of the BAI conclusions.

The Board has asked Prof Horgan to revisit the implementation of his recommendations on a periodic basis and to report to it on his findings.

RTÉ said that once the BAI inquiry is complete, it will “implement any further necessary changes to address identified weaknesses in our editorial processes, and will continue to do everything possible to restore public confidence in RTÉ’s investigative journalism”.

RTÉ also commits to publishing the results of its own investigations and recommendations to the full extent legally permissible once the BAI Inquiry has been concluded.

The Board reiterated RTÉ’s “deep regret that serious failures occurred in the production and broadcast of” A Mission to Prey.

Our duty is to maintain and defend the public interest and to provide leadership in terms of standards and accountability, in all that we do. The Board and Director General are united in a determination to re-establish full public trust in all aspects of RTÉ’s journalism and standards through a full accounting for the exceptional and grave errors that occurred in this case.

RTÉ added it “repeats its commitment to broadcast investigative journalism as a core programming priority over the coming years and restates its support for the delivery of this service in the public interest”.

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    May 28th 2022, 8:35 AM

    Give it another six months and if the price of everything keeps increasing as it has in the last six months, people might be living on spuds!

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    May 28th 2022, 11:31 AM

    @David Van-Standen: spuds ain’t cheap to buy either

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    May 28th 2022, 11:56 AM

    @James Fox: cheap to grow. I’ve about 80 plants growing

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    May 28th 2022, 10:20 AM

    How come chippies are complaining about the price of potatoes and their suppliers are blaming it on the war saying a lot of potatoes they use are imported. Example My local chippie has t2 stores he gets a HGV load of potatoes once/twice a week he’s getting them potatoes in from UK and parts of Eastern Europe inc Ukraine pre war. This country should be self sufficient in veg.

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    May 28th 2022, 10:04 AM

    How come we cannot buy any frozen chips that are made in Ireland? Not only should be able to, it should be a major export commodity as well.

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    May 28th 2022, 11:22 AM

    Bring back (in supermarkets) the option to pick your own spuds. I personally never get through even a small bag before they go off. Being able to pick the amount you need for one meal would be helpful and I’m sure more people like me, would be more inclined to buy.

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    May 28th 2022, 11:37 AM

    @Finola Thorn: I bought 2 potatoes yesterday!

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    May 28th 2022, 11:38 AM

    @OConnelj: in a supermarket.

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    May 28th 2022, 12:02 PM

    @OConnelj: wrapped in plastic no doubt

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    May 28th 2022, 1:26 PM

    @Finola Thorn: I would completely agree on that, same for other fruit and vegetables. They don’t care if you have to throw out produce gone bad, they sell you a bigger bag than you need because they can charge you more for it. That’s all they are interested in, your money and getting it from your pocket into their till. The days of Superquinn are long gone now.

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    May 28th 2022, 5:12 PM

    @Jason Walsh: nope loose.

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    May 28th 2022, 5:47 PM

    @Finola Thorn: I live on my own,and I go to the veg man,he has a stall,and has every kind of fruit veg and potatoes,I’d say can I get 4 r 6 potatoes,it’s no problem,he has veg u get in the supermarket,and he has the carrots,onions with the stalks still on them,they have only been picked,or often in Butchers they would have a paper bag of potatoes,and u can fill your own,I hope u find someplace near u

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    May 28th 2022, 8:44 AM

    A Polish friend of mine was asking me wan time which were better, Polish Potatoes or Irish Potatoes? I said to him: That dipinds on whether you are ating dem yurselves, or fading dem to de cattle.

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    May 28th 2022, 8:36 AM

    Sounds like he has a bit of a chip about it

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    May 28th 2022, 3:09 PM

    Potatoes are so flexible. I love them as boxty. New potatoes are delicious just add butter and a pinch of salt. Roasted or boiled in their jackets or mashed with milk, scallions, butter and chives. Or served baked in cream. Or as pommes Anna. Or pommes dauphinois! Or Créme fraiche potatoes. The list is endless!! Gan féasta gan prátaí!

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