IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Friday, May 04, 2012
Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has criticised RTÉ’s ‘Mission to Prey’ programme today, calling it a “shoddy, unprofessional, cavalier, damaging piece of work”.
RTÉ was hit with a €200,000 fine over its defamatory programme which libelled a Catholic missionary priest.
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) investigation into the ‘Prime Time Investigates’ programme found it broadcast serious, damaging and untrue allegations about Fr Kevin Reynolds by wrongly accusing him of raping a minor and fathering a child while working in Kenya 30 years ago.
Speaking after the release of the BAI Statement of Findings and Report of the Investigating Officer today, Minister Rabbitte said that the broadcast of ‘Mission to Prey’ “really poses a fundamental challenge now to RTÉ to re-establish its reputation to rebuild that trust it has had with the Irish people.”
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