Pat Kenny nearly loses rag with Jack O'Connor

Most of the value is in the land price though. His point about building it in 1988 is to make the point that while he would have put allot into it, he would not have spent millions.

Smyth wrote: »

Who cares when his house was built...it's where he's living at the minute that yer man was talking about.

It was a cheap dig and fair play to Pat for calling him on it.

Smyth wrote: »

That wouldn't be the Gorse Hill that Pat went through all that legal ****e for would it?

Smyth wrote: »

Same Gorse hill with an estimated value of €10,000,000?

So what is that today?

Smyth wrote: »

God no, sure Pats a common man.

Did he claim to be a man of the people during the interview?

The_Minister wrote: »

Most of the value is in the land price though. His point about building it in 1988 is to make the point that while he would have put allot into it, he would not have spent millions.

That's not what he was asked though. He was asked what was considered a trophy house. Pats house - even though it didn't start that big - is that big now, and is considered a trophy house.

That was his point.
Cheap, yes - but oh so brilliant.

He's still a land grabbing squatter.

Lux23 wrote: »

Jack O'Connor earns about 120k a year himself; I wonder what his house looks like.

Something like this, but maybe with more pretty red hammer and sickle flags

TBH I am fed up of all these well paid presenters asking us mere mortals "Well how is the recession affecting YOU"! And maybe the union leader was getting a jibe in.....and mind you, those union leaders would want to look at their own salaries as well!!!!! This country is such a JOKE!!!

How dare these people, presenters and the likes, how dare they! With most of them on serious salaries, the recession doesn't even enter into their oppulent daily lives! And that goes for all the top well paid presenters on the National airwaves!

And what really gets on my goat is those so called "economists" out there, presenting programmes and writing books about the "I told you so recession" and THEY too no doubt, commanding big buks for their advice,(allegedly!) which is not worth listening to at this stage!!!! And while I am on this subject, how come it takes an HOUR to deliver the news on RTE at 6.01 each day? Its like a repeat of the hourly news on the radio during the day!!!! I switched over to BBC news last night and there is Geore Alagiah SITTING DOWN, thank God, reading the news and it is all done and dusted in less than 30 minutes. With RTE it is like a MUSICAL, they are up on their feet, then sitting down and it takes two of them to repeat the same thing heard during the day? For GOD'S SAKE, if we are in the age of cut-backs, what are they like? I read recently that it costs over €4m to run RTE is this true?.......dear GOD!

suitseir wrote: »

I read recently that it costs over €4m to run RTE is this true?.......dear GOD!

I think we can pretty safely say that RTE costs more than four million quid. You meant per year, right?:)

muckraker wrote: »

There's been a few comments like this on the thread. Here are nurse's pay scales:

Staff Nurse 16,629 - 24,280
Senior Staff Nurse 25,954
Clinical Nurse Manager 25,155 - 29,912
Clinical Instructor 25,896 - 30,453
Assistant Director of Nursing 27,175 - 32,724

So 124k would get you 4 or 5 nurses.

It's amazing how many people are happy to give out about public sector pay when they know almost nothing about it.

My GF is a nurse, senior staff nurse, pediatric qualified, and is on well more than 25k. Obviously overtime would push her wages up, but I am certain her base salary ex over time is well over 25k.

I would also point out though, pension and union payments do take a hefty toll each month.