He will present a show about the “diverging paths” taken by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the post-civil war landscape.
RTÉ has announced that Sean O’Rourke will be returning to the national broadcaster to host a radio show two years after the controversy surrounding Golfgate.
O’Rourke will present Two Tribes, a programme that will follow the “diverging paths” taken by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the post-civil war landscape.
In May 2020, the broadcaster retired from his role as the presenter of RTÉ’s show Today with Sean O’Rourke, having held the position since 2013.
It was expected that he would continue working with RTÉ in the future when it came to light that he was in attendance at the controversial Oireachtas Golf Society dinner held in Clifden in Galway in August 2020 during strict Covid restrictions.
Later that month, RTÉ announced that it and O’Rourke had mutually decided that he would not proceed with plans for future projects with the national broadcaster.
“I spent many years with RTÉ presenting programmes on which public figures were called to account for their actions,” O’Rourke said in a statement at the time.
“Now I must call myself to account. The right course is to set aside our plans for my return to the airwaves.”
Two Tribes is part of a series of RTÉ content across television, radio and online focusing on the Irish Civil War and revolutionary Ireland.
Other projects include The Irish Civil War, a three-part documentary series narrated by Brendan Gleeson, A Deal with the Devil which sees Michael Portillo tell the story of the Civil War from the perspective of the British government and Communism, Sex, and All That Jazz where Katie Hannon “delves into the national archives to discover what we as a nation did once we achieved Statehood”.
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