predecessor successor birth_place salary article_title birth_date known_for spouse employer education name occupation
bob collins noel curran belfast , county antrim , northern ireland 380,000 -lrb- 2008 -rrb- cathal goan
 1954 director-general of rtÉ maighread ní dhomhnaill raidió teilifís Éireann -lrb- rtÉ -rrb- university college dublin -lrb- ucd -rrb- cathal goan radio and television producer
cathal goan

cathal goan -lrb- born 1954 , county antrim , northern ireland -rrb- is a radio and television producer .
he played a main role in the launch of tg4 .
he was appointed director-general of rtÉ in 2003 , announcing his departure in 2010 .
goan was born in ardoyne , belfast .
he is an irish language speaker .
he studied celtic studies in university college dublin and joined rtÉ as an archivist in 1979 with rtÉ radio .
he became a producer and senior producer on rtÉ radio .
in 1988 , he moved to rtÉ television and worked on `` today tonight '' .
remaining in current affairs , he became editor of cúrsaí , an irish language television programme about arts and current affairs .
he became editor of irish language programming in 1990 .
four years after being appointed editor , he was approached to become ` ceannasaí ' of the new teilifís na gaeilge .
from august 1994 , he managed the commencement of the new television channel .
after a successful launch of the channel , where award-winning programming was produced , he returned to rtÉ in 2000 .
he was appointed director of television and became a member of the rtÉ executive board .
bob collins retired as director-general of rtÉ in 2003 to pursue a career elsewhere .
it was announced in july 2003 that goan would fill this position .
he became the director-general in october 2003 .
in 2008 , goan had a salary of , but it was reduced by .
in 2006 he was announced as member of the board of national concert hall , and will serve there until may 2011 .
after the broadcast of a news item on nude pictures of brian cowen , michael kennedy td called for goan to `` consider his position '' as director-general .
goan also received criticism from Éamon Ó cuív in february 2010 when sunday mass was reduced to being broadcast just once a month on rtÉ raidió na gaeltachta .
goan announced in july 2010 that he intended to step down at the end of his seven-year term .
his resignation was accepted by the rtÉ board .
goan is married to singer maighread ní dhomhnaill .
she met him when she was `` 16 or 17 of age '' .
