Cathal Goan

[4] After a successful launch of the channel, where award-winning programming was produced, he returned to RTÉ in 2000.

Bob Collins retired as Director-General of RTÉ in 2003 to pursue a career elsewhere.

[5] After the broadcast of a news item on nude pictures of Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Minister Michael Kennedy called for Goan to "consider his position" as Director-General of RTÉ.

[6] Goan also received criticism from Minister Éamon Ó Cuív in February 2010, when Sunday Mass was reduced to being broadcast just once a month on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.

[7] Goan announced in July 2010, that he intended to step down at the end of his seven-year term.