{"id":466063,"date":"2026-05-03T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/466063\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:53:13","slug":"how-dee-forbes-silence-left-a-trail-of-confusion-and-controversy-at-rte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/466063\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dee Forbes\u2019 silence left a trail of confusion and controversy at RT\u00c9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In this edited extract from his new book \u2018RT\u00c9: Saints, Scholars and Scandals\u2019, Shane Ross details the fallout from the DG\u2019s departure\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former RT\u00c9 director general Dee Forbes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bd620b0a-32eb-4ea4-9440-a15e74b122a7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former RT\u00c9 director general Dee Forbes<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To some, Dee Forbes is the villain \u2014 the wicked woman who is the cause of all RT\u00c9\u2019s ills. To others, she is the leading scapegoat. The former director general\u2019s silence since her humiliating resignation after the Tubridy scandal broke in June 2023 has infuriated the innocent and emboldened the guilty. No doubt many players on the RT\u00c9 stage, fearful that the entire truth could emerge, are hoping the 57-year-old never forsakes her isolation to fill in the gaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sceptics have scoffed at Forbes\u2019s protestations of ill-health. The dwindling band of more charitable commentators, wishing to recognise the veracity of her sickness, believe that the merciless pressure on her for more than three years has taken a mental and physical toll that few people could withstand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE\u00a0|\u00a0 In this edited extract from his new book \u2018RT\u00c9: Saints, Scholars and Scandals\u2019, Shane Ross details the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,144450,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,1181,26666,127185,30168,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-466063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dee-forbes","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-rte","23":"tag-ryan-tubridy","24":"tag-shane-ross","25":"tag-the-late-late-show","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116509330969180793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}