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On 6 February 2018, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) upheld a complaint in relation to remarks made by a presenter describing a journalist as a “Holocaust denier” as being “unfair” and “likely to mislead audiences as to his views”. The complaint concerns “Morning Ireland”, a news and current affairs programme broadcast each weekday morning from 7 a.m. until 9.a.m. on the public service broadcaster, RTÉ Radio 1. The complaint was submitted under Section 48(1) (a) of the 2009 Broadcasting Act (which deals with Fairness, Objectivity and Impartiality in News Content) and Section 4 of the...

On 13 December 2017, the Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting was laid before the Irish Parliament. The 323-page Report follows an extensive public consultation process, and evidence from broadcasters and platform providers, to investigate possible viable alternative funding models for public service broadcasting. The Report makes a number of notable recommendations. Firstly, the Committee recommends that a broadening of the existing charging regime be expanded to capture every household consuming media, regardless of the technology used. Such a new...

On 1 February 2018, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Charlie Flanagan, launched the publication of the 2018 Data Protection Bill 2018. The Bill will give effect to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR (2016/679), which will become law within the EU on 25 May 2018. The Bill repeals the 1988 and 2003 Data Protection Acts, with the exception of those provisions relating to the processing of personal data for the purposes of national security, defence and the international relations of the State, thereby giving effect to Directive (EU) 2016/680 on the protection of natural persons with...

On 19 December 2017, the public broadcaster RTÉ settled the ongoing legal proceedings that had been initiated by a former presidential candidate against RTÉ over a 2011 televised election debate. The claim centred on RTÉ’s 2011 election debate, when the presenter questioned the candidate about a statement concerning him that had just been made on the supposed official Twitter account of another candidate. It later turned out that the tweet had been attributed, in error, to the official Twitter account of the other candidate. In March 2012, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) held that the...

On 5 October 2017, the Irish High Court ruled that the broadcaster Channel 4 was entitled to claim “journalistic privilege” over sources for an edition of its investigative television programme series “Dispatches”, broadcast in August 2013. The airline company Ryanair brought an action in defamation against the broadcaster over its "Secrets from the Cockpit" programme, which dealt with a number of criticisms of Ryanair over its fuel policy, passenger safety, and pilot working conditions. In 2014, an order for discovery of documentation and material used in the making of the programme was made in...