Conor Kane has been appointed RTÉ southeast correspondent, which will see him covering Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, South Tipperary, Kilkenny and Carlow for the broadcaster. He will replace Damien Tiernan who stepped down as RTÉ’s southeast correspondent in January. Tiernan said his decision to resign from RTÉ was driven by the broadcaster’s downgrading of regional coverage over the years. He spent 23 years as a Waterford-based RTÉ correspondent and was earning €90,000 a year when he left. A spokeswoman for RTÉ said at the time that the station was committed to regional coverage on all its programmes and platforms.

Source: The Irish Times May 20, 2019 12:00 UTC