Kieran

And even in those cases, a lot of the time in the private sector, and I can think of examples in my own life, like people are paid off to go away when they want rid of them for the exact same reason it happened at RT, because the legal advice is it's going to cost you a fortune to find yourself down before an appointment to try to do it again.

But they all exist here as well.

And do you know how I know that?

Because I got an email about three weeks ago to say that my probationary period had come to an end.

Yeah.

What do you make then of the argument that the reason we're talking about it today is because things have improved?

This is the problem that current management identified, fixed, told the minister, and that's why it's out in the public domain.

Actually, it's a good sign of accountability.

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Sandra is on the line.

Sandra, what have you made of the latest RTE story?

But do you accept that there's, I mean, you mentioned the Daily Mail.

I mean, across all the newspapers, there's hundreds and hundreds of stories on a daily basis and a fraction of them.

Why do you think it wasn't on the front page of other newspapers?

Why only one?

And that is, I find that very, very... But I just wondered, have you thought about, I just, I don't know, because I don't know about this story and maybe that's a poor reflection on me, but that, you know, independently, all these editors in different organisations who have nothing to do with each other all made the same decision.

Well, you know, senior editors, you criticise an RTE for not covering that.