‘Individuals were unfairly treated’ – former RTÉ Board chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh describes Oireachtas hearings as ‘vicious’

While speaking in an interview with the Irish Times, she said what happened in RTÉ was “wrong” and she “hasn’t been behind the door about that”.

A Co Donegal native, who now lives in Connemara, Ms Ní Raghallaigh was appointed chairperson of the RTÉ Board in November 2022, only seven months before the RTÉ payment scandal broke.

She described the Dáil Public Accounts Committee and the Oireachtas Media Committee hearings as “vicious” and that people “were unfairly treated”, she said.

“A friend of mine said to me after they had seen me on the first one: ‘If this is democracy, show me the alternative’. It’s vicious. That’s all I’ll say,” she told the Irish Times.

“It was not vicious for me. When I use that word I’m using it in the sense I felt people were unfairly treated.

“Individuals were unfairly treated. It’s at a humane level. I’m just talking about the humane,” she added.

She said it was wrong that people “were treated as if they had no…

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