RTÉ spends over €250,000 on staff clothes

RTÉ is under fire for spending over a quarter of a million euro a year on clothes for its staff.

It bought outfits from high-end shops like Brown Thomas, Louis Copeland and Hugo Boss.

Between 2021 and 2025, the bill at Brown Thomas came to €71,000 – while €2,000 was spent on fast fashion site Shein, and €119 was spent on cowboy boots.

Fine Gael TD Micheál Carrigy says the broadcaster promised it would row back on spending – but that hasn’t happened:

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