RTÉ director general

Pioneering spirit of Kevin C McCourt

Sir, – Business Today (Saturday, January 7th) states that Dee Forbes is the first director general of RTÉ who “proved it was not necessary to be an internal candidate or a former executive for RTÉ to fulfil the criteria” when she was appointed.

The organisation’s second director general, Kevin C McCourt, came from a distinguished business background and had no previous experience in broadcasting or the media prior to his appointment. – Yours, etc,

SHEAMUS SMITH,

Dublin 6.