TOP RTE STAFF STEP ASIDE OVER AHASCRAGH PRIEST'S DEFAMATION

Date Published: 23-Nov-2011

The Managing Director of RTE News and Current Affairs, Ed Mulhall, has decided to step aside from his post for the duration of a BAI investigation into the Prime Time Investigates libeling of Ahascragh Parish Priest, Fr. Kevin Reynolds.

Editor of current affairs Ken O'Shea has also decided to step aside.

Primetime producer Brian O'Parceir and reporter Aoife Kavanagh will not be engaged in any on air broadcast activities for the duration of the investigation.

It's as a result of an inquiry into a PrimeTime Investigates programme last May, which made false allegations about Fr. Reynolds.