In June of 2020 The Sunday Business Post ran a story outlining RTÉ's offer to take a 49% stake of Maximum Media, the ailing publisher behind online news sites joe.ie and her.ie. In December following a failed Freedom of Information request to RTÉ on this deal The Sunday Time ran a story outline it reasoning as to why such documents should be released. RTÉ have also refused to say that such document exist as it could potentially undermined them in future business deals.