Reports that a decision on the future of RTÉ may not be made until after the budget invite an obvious question: which budget? It feels like a rookie error to assume Budget 2024. Maybe it’s Budget 2042? Almost as unsurprising as news that the RTÉ crisis will not be resolved on budget day is a new opinion poll confirming that the public isn’t overly enamoured with paying the television licence fee. No plot twists here. According to the Ipsos research commissioned by The Irish Times, only 27 per cent of people now say they will “definitely pay” their licence fee...