"Media incest, " is what he called it.

Funnily enough, the following day the Evening Herald announced the arrival of a new columnist . . .

Fergal Keane from RTE.

Keane recently extracted an apology from his broadcast employer over confusion with the BBC reporter of the same name. Keane's wife . . .

the RTE one . . . also had a recent victory of sorts over RTE. The Broadcasting Complaints Commission last month upheld a complaint made by Tara Buckley over an RTE advert for the National Consumer Agency concerning the Groceries Order. Buckley is the boss of RGDATA, the shopkeepers' lobby group.