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To be clear neither Dee Forbes nor Rory Covney were not board members in the term generally understood, they are former senior managers (the former Director-General and Director of Strategy ) who were members of what RTE previously termed somewhat inaccurately “the Executive Board” (but under Kevin Backhurst has been given the more accurate name “Leadership Team”). They have both now left RTE.

The reason for the somewhat confusing name is that the non-executive board was until 2009 named “the RTE Authority” (similar to S4C) and the name persisted even after the latter body was renamed. That body is a separate non-executive body headed by the Chairperson. Moya Doherty was chairperson of RTE but her term as chairperson came to an end before the current controversy came to light and the latter wasn’t the reason she left.