[Rdd]

A bit silly, of course, the Government can’t just hand over a cheque of that size to a broadcaster that hasn’t faced a challenge to their license since 1989.

And if we go down that road, we end up with the New Zealand situation, where their TV3 is axing all news provision and TVNZ (presumably where VMTV intend RTE to end up) is axing all but their 6pm news bulletin. The Irish Sound and Vision scheme is of course modelled on the NZ version, but we now know where that leads, and do we really want to arrive at that destination?