As the national broadcaster's Sports Department issues damning statement saying they have NO CONFIDENCE in their boss, we reveal the famous RTÉ presenters who have it in for Kevin Bakhurst...

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The household names were among 60 staff at a meeting this week in which the damning statement was made against the station's top brass after Ger Gilroy's appointment.

Published: 23:48 GMT, 14 November 2026 | Updated: 23:48 GMT, 14 November 2026

A host of RTÉ sport’s household names are leading the internal charge against Director General Kevin Bakhurst and his RTÉ executive after a row over a new sports podcast erupted into open revolt with a strongly worded statement this week expressing no confidence in RTÉ senior leadership.

The Irish Mail on Sunday has confirmed that sports presenters Jacqui Hurley, Darragh Moloney, Paul O’Flynn, Clare MacNamara and Eamon Horan were among 60 staff who attended a meeting this week from which the damning statement was issued.

As well as faces with which the viewing public are very familiar, the meeting was attended by senior programme editors and producers from TV, radio and online.

The meeting was a response to the disastrous appearance of RTÉ senior leadership at the Oireachtas Media Committee on November 4, where a hoarse Director General Kevin Bakhurst, Deputy DG Adrian Lynch and Head of Audio Patricia Monahan attempted to explain and defend the circumstances surrounding the appointment of former Newstalk presenter Ger Gilroy to the new sports podcast, Howler.

Ms Monahan was previously quoted by the Irish Independent as saying that Mr Gilroy applied via an expressions-of-interest process.

At the media committee, she said she ‘never said that Ger applied through an expression-of-interest process’ but had taken part in one, after which he was deemed ‘the most appropriate candidate’.

At the Committee meeting, Chairman Alan Kelly suggested that this was effectively ‘head-hunting’ and was being viewed as the latest in a reverse Newstalk takeover of RTÉ.

In an interview with The Irish Times after the committee meeting, Mr Gilroy said he received a call from former Newstalk colleague Hugh Ormond, now RTÉ’s head of podcasts, who pitched a daily sports podcast to him.

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