RTÉ Executive Board

The RTÉ Executive Board, despite its name, is not a board of directors, but rather is a committee composed of the senior management 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 RTÉ Board 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, radio, news & current affairs, and corporate development, the chief digital officer, the chief technology officer, the chief financial officer, 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,[1] while the other board members are appointed by the director-general.

In October 2017 a new executive board was put in place[2] 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.[3] Willie O'Reilly took up the position of chairman of iRadio,[4] with Geraldine O'Leary taking his position as commercial director, she does not sit on the executive board.[5] 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.

Currently the members of the executive board are:[6]

Position	Office holder
Director-General	Dee Forbes
Chief Financial Officer	Richard Collins
Director of Content	Jim Jennings
Director of Channels & Marketing	Adrian Lynch
Managing Director of RTÉ News and Current Affairs	Jon Williams
Director of Human Resources	Eimear Cusack
Chief Technology Officer	Richard Waghorn
Director of Strategy	Rory Coveney
Director of Commercial	Geraldine O'Leary
Legal, Director[7]	Paula Mullooly

Mission to Prey

Following RTÉ's defamation of Father Kevin Reynolds in its "Mission to Prey" episode of Prime Time, RTÉ announced that Ed Mulhall, MD News, had "retired" on 3 April 2012.[8]

References

1. "RTÉ announces next Director-General – RTÉ Ten". Retrieved 23 April 2015.
2. "Appointments Complete RTÉ Executive Board". RTÉ About. 28 August 2017. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
3. "RTÉ Executive Board – RTÉ About". RTÉ About. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
4. Slattery, Laura (30 November 2018). "Willie O'Reilly appointed iRadio chairman". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
5. Slattery, Laura (18 January 2018). "RTÉ appoints Geraldine O'Leary as group head of commercial". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
6. "RTÉ Executive Board – Inside RTÉ". RTÉ About. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
7. "RTÉ Annual Report 2019" (PDF). RTÉ Annual Report 2019: 78.
8. "RTÉ MD of News & Current Affairs Ed Mulhall retires, changes to current affairs announced". RTÉ News. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2012.