Ireland’s media watchdog has cleared the State broadcaster of any unfairness in a programme labelled by the Pro-Life Campaign as “the single most biased broadcast on abortion that RTÉ ever put on air”.

Complaints were submitted by the Pro Life Campaign and others regarding the RTÉ Investigates programme which aired last year in a prime time slot.

It offered only pro-choice criticisms of the operation of Ireland’s abortion law, and no pro-life criticisms.

Coimisiún na Meán accepted RTE’s disclaimer at the start of the programme that it was not “looking at the rights and wrongs of abortion” but was only examining the operation of abortion provision under the new law.

It then found no fault with the programme.