RTÉ HAS SAID that it is investigating a tweet that was sent from the official RTÉ One Twitter account.

The now deleted tweet from RTÉ One was sent this afternoon and was in response to a tweet sent on Friday that was connected to the Al Porter controversy.

The offending tweet contained the word “Fee” and featured a gif image of half-naked man sliding across the screen followed by the words “DEAL WITH IT”.

The tweet which followed has also since been deleted. It simply contained the words “We could easily” and was sent to two accounts.

Both tweets remained live on the RTÉ One account for about 30 minutes before being deleted.

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Asked about the sending of the tweets and about whether the RTÉ One account had been compromised, a spokesperson for RTÉ has said:

We have deleted the tweet and are investigating the matter.

RTÉ has also apologised to the individual who sent the original tweet to which the tweet being investigated was replying.