Michael O’Leary described reporting by RTE as “spew from the Trotskyites” in a speech at a Fine Gael fundraiser REMY GABALDA/AFP/GETTYRTE’s deputy director-general has defended the state broadcaster after Michael O’Leary descibed it as a “rat-infested North Korean union shop”. “I can’t turn on the bloody nine o’clock news without having to see Ingrid Miley’s face giving me the lastest spew from the Trotskyites and all the rest of it,” the Ryanair chief executive said at a Fine Gael fundraising breakfast in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin on Wednesday. Ms Miley is RTE’s industry and employment correspondent and has reported extensively on recent strikes involving Luas and bus drivers. Kevin Bakhurst, who is also RTE’s managing director of news and…

Source: The Times October 09, 2016 23:03 UTC