The RTÉ Executive Board, despite its name, is not a

board of directors A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit orga ...

, but rather is a

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composed of the senior

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activitie ...

of the Irish public service broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, responsible for the day-to-day running of the broadcaster. The executive board reports to the

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through the director general.

Composition

The executive board is chaired by the Director-General of RTÉ, Dee Forbes. The board was made up of the managing directors of

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a tr ...

, news & current affairs, and corporate development, the chief digital officer, the chief technology officer, the

chief financial officer The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and fina ...

, and the group commercial director until 2017. The director general is appointed by the RTÉ Board, with the consent of the government and the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht, while the other board members are appointed by the director-general. In October 2017 a new executive board was put in place the new board dropped the Director of TV and the Director of Radio, replacing them with the Director of Content and the Director of Audience, Channels and Marketing. Frances Abeton left the role of Director of Operations and Production Services at the end of 2018. Willie O'Reilly took up the position of chairman of iRadio, with Geraldine O'Leary taking his position as commercial director, she initially did not sit on the executive board. In 2019 Rory Coveney became Director of Strategy and was appointed to the board, Geraldine O'Leary was also appoint to the board. In 2019 Paula Mullooly joined the Executive board as Legal Director. In 2020 Breda O'Keeffe retired as CFO and was replaced by Richard Collins. On 21 June 2022, Jon Williams announced his resignation as Managing Director of RTÉ News and Current Affairs and stepped down at the end of July. He was replaced by Deirdre McCarthy on an interim basis. On 19 December 2022, Deirdre took the position of Managing Director of RTÉ News & Current Affairs. Currently the members of the executive board are:

Mission to Prey

Following RTÉ's defamation of Father Kevin Reynolds in its "

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" episode of ''

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'', RTÉ announced that Ed Mulhall, MD News, had "retired" on 3 April 2012.

References

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