RTÉ Executive Board
The RTÉ Executive Board, despite its name, is not a board of directors, but rather is a committee composed of the senior management of the Irish public service broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, responsible for the day-to-day running of the broadcaster.
The Executive Board reports to the RTÉ Board through the Director General.
Composition
The Executive Board is chaired by the Director-General of RTÉ. The Board is made up of the Managing Directors of Television, Radio, News, RTÉ Digital, and Corporate Development, together with the Chief Financial Officer, Group Commercial Director and Chief Technology Officer. The Director General is appointed by the RTÉ Board, with the consent of the government and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources,[1] while the other board members are appointed by the Director-General. Currently the members of the Executive Board are:
- Noel Curran, Director General
- Glen Killane, MD Television
- Breda O'Keeffe, CFO
- Jim Jennings, MD Radio
- Kevin Bakhurst, MD News and Current Affairs
- Brian Dalton, MD Corporate Development
- Múirne Laffan, MD Digital
- Richard Waghorn: CTO[2]
Mission to Prey
Following RTÉ's defamation of Father Kevin Reynolds in its "Mission to Prey" episode of Prime Time, RTÉ announced that Ed Mulhall, MD News, had "retired" on 3 April 2012.[3]
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