Reverend Dr Alan McCormack, a Church of Ireland minister and the Chaplain of Trinity College Dublin, has been elected the new Chair of RTÉ’s Audience Council.
The council was established in late 2003 to facilitate fuller communication and accountability for the broadcaster and meets at least four times annually.
As the nominee of the Irish Council of Churches, Dr McCormack has been a member of the
RTÉ Audience Council since its inception and he is also the Secretary of the Church of Ireland's
Broadcasting Committee and a member of the Churches' Media Council, which is based in
London. A native of Belfast, Dr McCormack is keenly interested in cinema, music and the theatre. He was educated at Oxford and at Yale.
Dr. McCormack replaces Derek Cunningham, a nominee of the Irish Farmers Association, who was the first Chair of the Council and who completed his one-year term of office in December 2004.
