Joe Duffy, RTÉ’s top paid presenter, has challenged Newstalk-owner Bauer Media over its highly popular Cash Machine competition, calling for greater transparency in how the contest is conducted.
In a series of now-deleted posts to X, the Liveline presenter claimed that the contest – which is understood to generate millions of euro in profit for the radio giant per year – “fulfils all the criteria of ‘gambling’”, and asked Bauer how much money had been …