Deus Ex Machina wrote: » Just what the hell does somebody like her do all day if she does two shows a week and earns that kind of bread? Actually, I don't even want to know. But along those lines, I'd much rather take her wages, give them to some smack head and then make him do two shows a week about what he gets up to. There's your bang for your entertainment buck!
Seanchai wrote: » I said @ €35,000. Teachers start on €27,814 basic plus @ €2000-€3000 on top for various qualifications, according to the ASTI Salary section. Given that all qualified teachers leaving college will start at this level, that's a lot of new teachers who could be financed with the money a single RTÉ presenter is being paid. Either way, you have completely missed the point: Finucane and her colleagues do not give Irish society back as much as a single good teacher or nurse, and accordingly to do not deserve to be paid a salary 15-20 times more for what amounts to waffling - a position plenty of talented, enthusiastic, attention-seeking egomaniacs would love to do for one-tenth of Finucane's salary.
washman3 wrote: » we will all whinge and moan about it just as we do about everything else in this country, but at the end of the day what will we do about it?? sweet feck all. These people are "insiders" in just another branch of our rotton to the core establishment. Marian Finucane is in general a pain in the a**e. Joe Duffy a cute conman. Will any of these people give any politican a hard time? why should they? the taxpayer pays their wages.And George Hamilton on 300k, no wonder he left Ulster television to come here. Most genuine sports minded people would do that job for a pittance.:mad:
Wertz wrote: » I've heard this exact argument from the mouth of one Mr Pat Kenny in the past regarding high wages. The big difference is that EPL footballers are paid from private companies who have en interest in finding and keeping the most skillful players in order to succeed in winning the various titles and the money associated with them and maintaining a high following among the fan base who buy tickets, merchandise and pay stupid money to the like of SKY for their live match coverage. If clubs don't pay those wages some other club will and income may fall... they effectively sell football and need the most talented individuals to help them maximise profits. Now to get back on topic, Ms Finnucane is a hypocrite because she will quite gladly sit in her studio if a weekend morning hosting a glorified coffee morning for the great and good of political and cultural Irish life and point fingers at civil service and semi state levels of renumeration whilst she herself takes over half a million p/a from a semi state (in all but name) company... But ike I say in all these threads, it's not her's or anyone else getting those wages' faults; if you offered me that money for that amount of work I'd take your hand offf as would anyone else...it's the clowns with their hands on the pursestrings out in Donnybrook that need to be collectively shaken by the necks for passing out such lucrative contracts. No-one is going to poach these people...the other indie broadcasters couldn't or wouldn't pay them these rates, even in the good old days. But someone said we should do something about it...trouble is we can't...we could choose to not pay the licence and face court time and fines/jail or we could wave a few placards outside the gates...but this can only be tackled by political will and action from the current minister and that measn it won't be because they're all in each other's back pockets (figuratively speaking)...
darkman2 wrote: » Read somewhere that MF, who presents 2 shows a week at the weekend on RTE radio 1 (yes, 2 shows per week) is on this sort of money. What the hell? Scandalous if true and it should piss people off big time. How many hours does this woman do for her (2 hour?) shows at the weekend? It may be just me but whenever I tune into RTE on the weekend there always seems to be someone standing in for her on yet another holiday for herself. It's blood boiling stuff, it really is. Time for someone to say stop to this - and with Tubridy and the rest of them. I really don't think given what us mortals are going through Irish people will tolerate much more of this carry on. What do you think? Can someone please come on and tell us how the likes of Joe Duffy - on similar obscene wages - are deserving of high appreciation of their talents? Joe Duffy likes to have a laugh on Friday on his show. Not alot of people in this country find it too humorous at the present time. But i'd say he is having a good time alright. He won't be worrying about little things like a mortgage. Someone should tell that to some of the goons on his show who ring in and say "ah sure,your one of us Joe".....as if he is living among his flock in Ballyfermot. He is in his fcuk.
Sonnenblumen wrote: » I would expect that most would know that there are significant categories of semi-states. RTE belongs to the category of commercial (ie revenue generating) , I suppose like ESB, Bord Gais and a host of other etc. What makes me laugh, is the ignorant criticism of individuals and referring to them or their masters as clowns. Well if they are as you suggest clowns, why aren't you or the many moaners like you not working there? Yes I get it, you don't have the interest to do a clown's job? If you want to get at the truth do a bit more homework. BTW, far from it, I'm no big fan of RTE. If it is to be privatised we can expect more of the same crappy stations which already populate the airwaves.
Sonnenblumen wrote: » What makes me laugh, is the ignorant criticism of individuals and referring to them or their masters as clowns. Well if they are as you suggest clowns, why aren't you or the many moaners like you not working there? Yes I get it, you don't have the interest to do a clown's job? If you want to get at the truth do a bit more homework.
Wertz wrote: » I don't have the interest...no, more like I don't have the personal contacts or the relations to get into the kind of position that these people get in to...I'm just one of the plebs and couldn't negotiate my way out of a plastic bag, but that doesn't mean I don't know good value for money when I see it...the type of people who award Finucane et al with their salaries are themselves cosseted and overpaid and know neither the value of the money they blow on these middle of the road presenters nor how hard it is to actaully come by that money in the first place. So I feel the term "clowns" is pertinent here...if not in the true sense of the word, since they don't realy do comedy out in Montrose either. The joke is on the licence payer.
Freddie59 wrote: » The epitome of all that is wrong in this country. A radio presenter can earn more than the Taoiseach, who in turn earns more than the president of the USA. Throw in a bunch of civil servants, "professionals" and public sector scams and you arrive at - hey presto - an €18bn deficit.No wonder the place is fcuked.
tayto lover wrote: » Its time to get rid of these old fogies.
oppenheimer1 wrote: » Thats questionable. So called front line public servants are overpaid too
oppenheimer1 wrote: » RTE provides a service in keeping the nation informed on the issues of the day in a fairer way then most of the press, which is a very valuable.
Killer Pigeon wrote: » Completely privatise RTÉ!
NIMAN wrote: » Re: Joe Duffy and his wages, A few quick calculations for his on-air, actual presenting time (and yes I know that he probably does off-air time etc). Time on air each day: 75mins. Time on air each week: 375mins. Time on air each yr: 375 x 52 = 19500 (and that's not allowing for his holidays). Yearly salary, approx €400,000 / 19500 = €20.50 per min. Per minute folks !!
200motels wrote: » They are paid way too much and so are teachers who only work half the year while we the worker and that's if you have a job get 4 weeks holidays a year for crap wages. Most of the public service don't know how lucky they are but then again they don't live in the real world.
Seanchai wrote: » Not one of them is worth more than €100,000. If we're paying, for example, nurses and teachers @ €35,000 each then nobody can tell me that one of these RTÉ presenters is worth 3 nurses or teachers, never mind the 12-20 nurses/teachers that their current salaries could employ. Madness.
tayto lover wrote: » MF spends most of her show coughing and spluttering and is a very poor presenter.
