A Sky News executive has expressed amazement that RTÉ presenters who recently broke COVID-19 protocols were not removed from air.
The executive spoke to the Irish Mail on Sunday this week after Sky star presenter Kay Burley was taken off air for six months after she held a 60th birthday party in London last week.
The station’s political editor, Beth Rigby, and news correspondent, Inzamam Rashid, were also suspended from broadcasting for three months after they were pictured at the party.
Even with these measures, colleagues at the channel said the suspensions were a ‘mild rebuke’. Told about the Irish broadcaster’s decision not to impose any sanctions on its staff for attending a retirement gathering on campus, the executive said he was
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