Name: WATCH: Angry RTÉ staff stage protest outside Limerick studios over salary revelations
Uploaded: 2023-06-27T14:33:00.000Z
Duration: 3 min 49 s
Description: WATCH: Angry RTÉ staff stage protest outside Limerick studios over salary revelations

STAFF at RTÉ's Limerick studios held a protest this Tuesday lunchtime demanding full transparency from the broadcaster's senior management.

This comes on the back of revelations that Ryan Tubridy received payments totalling €345,000 over a number of years which were not disclosed.

RTÉ's director general Dee Forbes resigned with "immediate effect" on Monday and senior personnel from RTÉ are due to appear before two separate Oireachtas committees over the coming days.

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Speaking outside the RTÉ and Lyric FM offices this Tuesday lunchtime, RTÉ's Mid West correspondent, Cathy Halloran said: “The staff here in the RTÉ regional office in Limerick, which is a very important part of RTÉ’s national coverage feel just like the staff at base in Donnybrook. They're dismayed, they're angry, and we're absolutely sickened by what we've heard."

Protests were also held in the Dublin, Northern Ireland and at the RTÉ studios in Cork.

“I, in my job and all my colleagues, we trade on trust, on truth and authority. I trust people will give me their trust to tell their stories, and they expect that I will tell those stories with truth and authority, and I feel that all of those things that I've worked so hard for in my 36 year career in RTÉ has been damaged, and I don't know how we're going to get that back,” added Ms Halloran.

placeholder image — “I, in my job and all my colleagues, we trade on trust, on truth and authority. I trust people will give me their trust to tell their stories, and they expect that I will tell those stories with truth and authority, and I feel that all of those things that I've worked so hard for in my 36 year career in RTÉ has been damaged, and I don't know how we're going to get that back,” added Ms Halloran.

“Full disclosure is now being demanded by the government. Full disclosure on everything that's happened has been demanded by the staff, and I think nothing less at this stage will do both the government, the taxpayer, and the staff of RTÉ.

“We work very hard and we take our jobs very seriously and our commitment to public service very, very seriously. And we are devastated that it might in some way be undermined by the events of the past week,” she told the Limerick Leader/Limerick Live.