A whistleblower claiming to be a senior and long-serving RTE employee has contacted 11 members of the Oireachtas with explosive new claims about the broadcaster’s coverage of the 2011 Presidential election. A whistleblower claiming to be a senior and long-serving RTE employee has contacted 11 members of the Oireachtas with explosive new claims about the broadcaster’s coverage of the 2011 Presidential election. This whistleblower said they have “agonised personally” over the station’s coverage of the election for seven years and feel “cowardly” for not speaking out sooner. The whistleblower said issues around election coverage extended beyond the controversy surrounding the final RTE Frontline televised debate hosted by Pat Kenny. “Eleven Oireachtas members have been approached by this individual within RTE and four Oireachtas members have spoken to this person over the last week,” the politician said.

Source: Irish Independent September 09, 2018 17:03 UTC