The 31 documents requested by the Public Accounts Committee from RTÉ dropped into the inboxes of politicians late Monday night.  The material, most of which was granted and unredacted, was widely anticipated in advance of today’s two committee meetings, likely the first to ever be live-streamed into pubs.  Never before have the concentric circles of Irish show business, public money, and torrential summer weather conflated into a single torpedo of mass public interest in the happenings of Oireachtas Committee meeting rooms one and three. Using these documents as a foundation and weeks of chaotic communications as a base, more information…

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