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Julie O Neill

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  • #2
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    On the board of Ryanair

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1214/1224327835357.html

    Well is'nt that a Surprise !

    Julie obviously has regained her ability to get a good nights rest after her statement to the Oireachtas that the Integrated Ticketing Scheme was "The only issue in her career that caused her to lose sleep " :eek:

    She is obviously a highly valuable asset to Ryanair as may be evidenced by some of her own writings ....;)

    http://pnd.hseland.ie/download/pdf/evpaper_julieoneill.pdf


    Onwards and Upwards,one hopes ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #3
    pclive
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    Oh my eyes!!


  • #4
    V_Moth
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    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Well is'nt that a Surprise !

    http://pnd.hseland.ie/download/pdf/evpaper_julieoneill.pdf


    Onwards and Upwards,one hopes ?

    That's how I like my presentations - garish to the max!


  • #5
    dissed doc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭dissed doc


    V_Moth wrote: »
    That's how I like my presentations - garish to the max!

    My god, that powerpoint is possibly one of the most appalling I have ever seen. It's like she purposefully did everything to ensure people reading would simply leave to avoid punishing their eyes.


  • #6
    Alun
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    dissed doc wrote: »
    My god, that powerpoint is possibly one of the most appalling I have ever seen. It's like she purposefully did everything to ensure people reading would simply leave to avoid punishing their eyes.
    She'll fit right in at Ryanair then, especially with the yellow on blue slide :)


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  • #7
    hardCopy
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    Alun wrote: »
    She'll fit right in at Ryanair then, especially with the yellow on blue slide :)

    Director of Interior Design Strategy


  • #8
    dermo88
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    oh my eyes

    I've worked for the likes of that. Sounds like a wagon to me.


  • #9
    parsi
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    Carawaystick wrote: »
    On the board of Ryanair

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1214/1224327835357.html

    What's her current pension ?


  • #10
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    On the board of Ryanair

    Irish Times
    Hired by Nep O'Tism, no doubt...?


  • #11
    Hungerford
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Hungerford


    dermo88 wrote: »
    I've worked for the likes of that. Sounds like a wagon to me.

    Once my retinas recovered, the one enduring impression was that the presentation wasn't terribly impressive - it was just a cut and paste from some management books. Maybe that's why she felt compelled to blind the audience?


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  • #12
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,541 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Hungerford wrote: »
    Once my retinas recovered, the one enduring impression was that the presentation wasn't terribly impressive - it was just a cut and paste from some management books.

    There's an appalling amount of lazy sexual stereotyping in there too.

    Scrap the cap!



  • #13
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    parsi wrote: »
    What's her current pension ?

    Interesting question Parsi,but it is a matter of public record I should imagine.

    Julie had the good business sense to hang up her Departmental apron at just the right time too.

    With a reported final salary of c. €270,000,I would expect her pension to be in the region of €165,000 per anum.

    However,some figures from late 2011,post dating Julie's flight from the State's embrace give an up to date clue as to how the former movers and shakers are looked after...

    http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2011/09/27/00156.asp

    Going on this (2011) position,a former Sec Gen would have a "Lump" (Tax Free) of c.€298,000 and an annual stipend of c.€99,500

    I'm sure somebody will be along shortly with Julie's actual figures ;)
    She spent 37 years in the public service and was earning €270,000 as secretary general of the department.

    However I do believe it's churlish to focus on any individuals entitlemens built up over a long-career wherever that may have been.

    What I'm far more concerned about is the Gamekeeper turned Poacher element of these appointments,which I view as commercial entities such as Ryanair,seeking to frustrate if not completely thwart,Government policies decided during that Poachers tenure as Gamekeeper....but,that said,the business of business is business and there's no better Irish Owned Business these days than Ryanair :confused:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #14
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    It's not meant to be churlish but I do have a problem with a civil servant who has reached the highest point in their department and who has retired becoming involved with a company whose surveillance and supervision was under their department's remit.


  • #15
    serfboard
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    AlekSmart wrote: »
    What I'm far more concerned about is the Gamekeeper turned Poacher element of these appointments,/QUOTE]
    parsi wrote: »
    It's not meant to be churlish but I do have a problem with a civil servant who has reached the highest point in their department and who has retired becoming involved with a company whose surveillance and supervision was under their department's remit.

    I agree with both of these and I would apply the same to politicians too. However, we all know the purpose of these appointments is for one reason only - lobbying. Look at John Bruton in the IFSC or Tom Parlon in the CIF.

    And Ryanair have previous in this regard - they appointed Ray MacSharry to their board as well ...


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