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RTÉ has dismissed claims that star presenters Jennifer Zamparelli , the 2 Johnnies and Doireann Garrihy were leaving 2FM because of new transparency rules on earnings outside the station. Zamparelli and the 2 Johnnies — Johnny “Smacks” McMahon and Johnny “B” O’Brien — this week said their 2FM shows were ending, a fortnight after Garrihy said she would broadcast her final breakfast show at the end of this month. Laura Fox, a presenter on RTÉ TV’s Ireland’s Fittest Family , was named on Friday as Zamparelli ’s successor.

New transparency rules on external earnings and a new register of interests follow a storm of controversy over lax RTÉ governance after disclosures about Ryan Tubridy’s money. READ MORE Court orders man to pay €410,000 to bereaved stepchildren he left alone in family home ‘It is becoming a living hell’: residents of Dublin housing complex protest against anti-social behaviour First Doireann Garrihy, now the 2 Johnnies and Jennifer Zamparelli: why are so many stars leaving 2FM? Analysis: How Leinster have had Toulouse’s number and can they do it again? Interviewed on Friday, 2FM station chief Dan Healy said the new regime was not the prime reason for the wave of departures. “Reality is it’s nuanced,” Healy told the Claire Byrne show on RTÉ Radio 1.



“It played a role to an extent but it’s not the reason. It just isn’t.” [ First Doireann Garrihy, now the 2 Johnnies and Jennifer Zamparelli: why are so many stars l.

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