SOLICTOR OF AHASCRAGH PRIEST QUESTIONS RTE PLAN

Date Published: 04-Apr-2012

The solicitor of Ahascragh priest Father Kevin Reynolds' has dismissed a move to scrap the Prime Time Investigates series as 'probably cosmetic'.

It was part of a range of measures announced by RTE yesterday, in the wake of an inquiry from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland into the 'Mission to Prey' programme.

In the programme Fr Reynolds was falsely accused of raping a minor while working as a missionary priest in Kenya, and fathering a child by her.

RTE's head of News and Current Affairs Ed Mulhall has retired, while the Editor of Current Affairs Ken O'Shea has resigned from his post and is being tranferred to a new position in Television.

But solicitor Robert Dore has questioned some of the other elements of RTE's plan