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the reason for the move was that he had become unhappy with working at RTÉ, stating in an interview that: "The real reason I got out of RTÉ was that they wouldn’t let me do what I wanted to do journalistically". He had submitted proposals to the station's editors for television documentary series on the
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in 1978. He was head-hunted to become its
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