Inside RTE: A Memoir

Behind the scenes at Ireland's national broadcaster.... For thirty-three years, Betty Purcell worked behind the scenes as an award-winning producer in RTÉ Radio and Television,with presenters such as Marian Finucane, John Bowman, Pat Kenny and John Kelly. She fought battles with the government, RTÉ management and the Workers' Party, taking a landmark case against Section 31 to Europe in 1991. She represented staff on the RTÉ Authority and on the union executive. From her early life in 1960s Dublin, to her days of social activism in the 1970s, Betty Purcell has never been afraid to court controversy. In this book, she tells the real story of life in the challenging, fraught and creative world of Irish broadcasting.