IRELAND
Donegal Democrat
The board of RTE has said there is no excuse for the defamation of a missionary priest wrongly accused of rape by the once-flagship journalism Prime Time Investigates programme.
In a two-hour meeting with Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, the 13 members made no attempt to defend the show over the Father Kevin Reynolds scandal.
RTE was fined 200,000 euro and reporter Aoife Kavanagh quit after a media watchdog probe found it broadcast serious, damaging and untrue allegations about Fr Reynolds by wrongly accusing him of raping a minor and fathering a child while working in Kenya 30 years ago.
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