"Chair Terence O'Rourke was content to blame past management for the latest debacle, involving Derek Mooney"
"Terence O'Rourke, the chairman of RTÉ, is notably media-shy. Last year, I bumped into him in leafy Donnybrook and asked him to do an interview for my book about the national broadcaster's troubled history."
"I had hoped to ask him about Dee Forbes, RTÉ's former director general, with whom he served on the board of the Irish Times. He declined, pleading that he had promised his first media outing as chairman to a journalist at the same newspaper."
RTÉ chairman Terence O'Rourke is described as media-shy. He declined an interview request for a book about the broadcaster’s troubled history. The request aimed to cover RTÉ’s former director general Dee Forbes, with whom he previously served on the board of the Irish Times. O'Rourke refused by saying he had promised his first media appearance as chairman to a journalist at the same newspaper. The account also notes that he was content to blame past management for the latest debacle involving Derek Mooney.
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