RTÉ's entire Executive Board stood down and replaced with temporary interim team

The news was announced in an email to staff this morning from RTÉ's new director general Kevin Bakhurst.

THE ENTIRE RTÉ Executive Board has been stood down and will be replaced with a temporary interim team.

Bakhurst told staff in this morning’s email that the temporary interim leadership team will run the organisation until a new permanent team is installed “in due course”. “As custodians of public money, our financial integrity must be on a par with our editorial integrity.” As part of this cultural change, Bakhurst said “from today” he will work to “co-ordinate a review of roles and grades, pay, and gender equality”.RTÉ’s new director general added that these are the “major announcements for today” and that “more will follow in the days and weeks ahead”.

“We will reform RTÉ by putting in place new structures and procedures that will ensure those mistakes of the past can never occur again,” said Ní Raghallaigh.

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