Miriam O Callaghans Recession Christmas !

four18 · 22-11-2011 01:25AM #1

Poor Miriam ! And her Hubby is on a large wedge in RTE too, NO hope for the rest of us so ! Did you ever read such poor me crap in your life !

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/im-having-a-recession-christmas-as-i-wait-to-hear-about-pay-cut-miriam-2940651.html

phasers · 22-11-2011 01:27AM

Excuse me while I tune my tiny violin.

Vego · 22-11-2011 01:28AM

Id give miriam a large wedge

22-11-2011 01:28AM

She must be worried about the budget and the childrens allowance too, tough times, only €200k odd a year.

Hasmunch · 22-11-2011 01:29AM

Vego wrote: »

Id give miriam a large wedge

After 8 kids that'd want to be some large wedge...

Sir Oxman · 22-11-2011 01:30AM

!

Dotrel · 22-11-2011 01:32AM

If they want a cheap Christmas they family could all gather between her legs and pretend it's Santa's grotto.

amacca · 22-11-2011 01:32AM

Clearly not all recession Christmases we're created equal.

hondasam · 22-11-2011 01:32AM

My heart bleeds for her, her choice to have eight kids.

texidub · 22-11-2011 01:33AM

She makes more than 1/4 of a million euros a year and she's doing the poor mouth?! FFS! These people in RTE are delusional.

Arrrrgh! *runs off screaming*

amacca · 22-11-2011 01:33AM

Dotrel wrote: »

If they want a cheap Christmas they family could all gather between her legs and pretend it's Santa's grotto.

that's Halloween silly!

Vego · 22-11-2011 01:33AM

Hasmunch wrote: »

After 8 kids that'd want to be some large wedge...

smash the back doors in

four18 · 22-11-2011 01:34AM

Dotrel wrote: »

If they want a cheap Christmas they family could all gather between her legs and pretend it's Santa's grotto.

Too much of an echo ! :rolleyes:

Venom · 22-11-2011 01:34AM

RTE star in out of touch with reality shocker!

Again.

People earning €290k a year should look up the word recession in the dictionary before spouting on about it :rolleyes:

texidub · 22-11-2011 01:38AM

Death to RTE! Off with their heads!

(had a nice little scream/jog there and feel refreshed now

)

the groutch · 22-11-2011 01:39AM

phasers wrote: »

Excuse me while I tune my tiny violin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdofmoYcJNE

Hail 2 Da Thief · 22-11-2011 01:41AM

Nauseating article.

It must be hard to get by when your salary been cut by a massive 3.6 % over recent years :rolleyes:

She'd make a good politician that one! Full of Sh!te.

ArmaniJeanss · 22-11-2011 01:45AM

Venom wrote: »

People earning €290k a year should look up the word recession in the dictionary before spouting on about it :rolleyes:

If you bought a lifestyle commensurate with your earnings at the height of the Celtic Tiger (A mortgage on a house at 5 times salary, car loans and the works) and are now faced with a 30%/35% paycut which will make the continued financing of those purchases impossible then you are facing your own personal recession.

This logic applies the same to the €30K earner being reduced to €20K up to the €1M earner being reduced to €660K.

Now obviously people will save their sympathy for the first person above, but it's churlish to suggest that the recession can't put you in a similar financial mess if you are a super high earner.

RichieC · 22-11-2011 01:53AM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

If you bought a lifestyle commensurate with your earnings at the height of the Celtic Tiger (A mortgage on a house at 5 times salary, car loans and the works) and are now faced with a 30%/35% paycut which will make the continued financing of those purchases impossible then you are facing your own personal recession.

This logic applies the same to the €30K earner being reduced to €20K up to the €1M earner being reduced to €660K.

Now obviously people will save their sympathy for the first person above, but it's churlish to suggest that the recession can't put you in a similar financial mess if you are a super high earner.

3.6% cut.

With that said, article is designed to inflame.

Sir Oxman · 22-11-2011 02:00AM

texidub wrote: »

She makes more than 1/4 of a million euros a year and she's doing the poor mouth?! FFS! These people in RTE are delusional.

Arrrrgh! *runs off screaming*

isn't her hubby a big shot in RTE too earning a massive wedge?

22-11-2011 02:01AM

God I fucking hate her...

*bites fist*

ArmaniJeanss · 22-11-2011 02:03AM

RichieC wrote: »

3.6% cut.

With that said, article is designed to inflame.

I think the article said that there was a 30% pay reduction expected when RTE contracts are renewed in 2013. I do agree about the tone of the article though.

My point was more against Venom (and many other people on other threads) suggesting that at a certain salary level that recession and/or pay cuts doesn't affect you.
Whereas depending on the financial committments you made at your maximum salary you can be every bit as affected as Joe Soap. A mortgage, unwisely taken is out, is no longer manageable - bills have to be juggled, maybe every time the phone rings theres a dread that its a cred mgmt agency again etc.

Peoples 'schadenfreude' about this for the €300K earner, and comparative sympathy for the €30K earner, is perfectly understandable obviously.

ejmaztec · 22-11-2011 02:05AM

The royalties from her autobiography will help her cashflow

22-11-2011 02:08AM

"Like OMG this resasshan is like hitting me like totally hord"?

Yakult · 22-11-2011 02:09AM

I genuinely feel sorry for her, on a measly €290k p/year.
Must be very tough on herself and her family.

Sir Oxman · 22-11-2011 02:14AM

It's the Herald so i suppose a large tract of Siberia should be taken - she doesn't appear to go into any depth about why xmas this year will be so hard on her and her husband and children.
Did they really take out an x8 or x9 mortgage? Do they run ten cars?
Own (on paper) twenty overseas investment properties?

Alas, we'll never know...damn you The Herald!

mariano rivera · 22-11-2011 02:26AM

Dotrel wrote: »

If they want a cheap Christmas they family could all gather between her legs and pretend it's Santa's grotto.

You are talking about her vagina?

right?

stepbar · 22-11-2011 02:42AM

Miriam took a cut from €301,667 in 2008 to €290,625 in 2009, a decrease of €11,042 or 3.6pc

She was earning €221k in 2006 - http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/steve-and-miriam-king-and-queen-of-rte-1719898.html

€11k pay cut?..... or close to €500 eur a month less.... Spare me :mad:

Ben Hadad · 22-11-2011 02:46AM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

If you bought a lifestyle commensurate with your earnings at the height of the Celtic Tiger (A mortgage on a house at 5 times salary, car loans and the works) and are now faced with a 30%/35% paycut which will make the continued financing of those purchases impossible then you are facing your own personal recession.

This logic applies the same to the €30K earner being reduced to €20K up to the €1M earner being reduced to €660K.

Now obviously people will save their sympathy for the first person above, but it's churlish to suggest that the recession can't put you in a similar financial mess if you are a super high earner.

You are missing the point. There is a baseline that people have to spend just to survive, i.e food stuff, medical, L&H, rent etc. For everyone these are fairly similar, and lets say for an example are roughly €20K per annum. Every penny you earn over this amount can be spent on discretionary spending.

Someone earning 300K and taking a cut of 10% will have to tighten the luxury belt a little and hold off on that chalet in the alps for another year.

Someone earning 20K and taking a 10% cut will have to eat less, or make reductions in neccessities, and maybe actually have to tighten their belts.

So no the logic does not apply that a person going from earnings of 1m to 660K and from 30k to 20K is the exact same. Seriously what world do you live in?

Helix · 22-11-2011 02:55AM

Ben Hadad wrote: »

You are missing the point. There is a baseline that people have to spend just to survive, i.e food stuff, medical, L&H, rent etc. For everyone these are fairly similar, and lets say for an example are roughly €20K per annum. Every penny you earn over this amount can be spent on discretionary spending.

Someone earning 300K and taking a cut of 10% will have to tighten the luxury belt a little and hold off on that chalet in the alps for another year.

Someone earning 20K and taking a 10% cut will have to eat less, or make reductions in neccessities, and maybe actually have to tighten their belts.

So no the logic does not apply that a person going from earnings of 1m to 660K and from 30k to 20K is the exact same. Seriously what world do you live in?

the person earning the 1m will have bills, ongoing expenses and a mortgage relevant to their income though. people live to their means. obviously there's plenty that she can do here, she can sell the house, sell one of the cars, all the usual stuff that we can all do, in order to make things a little easier - but she is probably choosing not to for the same reasons that you or i choose not to

shes not saying shes broke, shes saying shes going to relax a good bit with the expenditures. you know, shes being sensible with her money. plenty of people, poor and rich alike, who could do with that kind of cop on

Thrill · 22-11-2011 03:09AM

four18 wrote: »

her Hubby is on a large wedge

Is he indeed? Kinky.

It's going to be a tough Christmas in the O'Callaghan household this year. Everyone will get their Christmas presents and they can all have a nice big dinner and wont have to worry about the cost of the Christmas period.

It's just not fair that people have to go through something like that. Hope they'll be O.K.

Miriam O Callaghans Recession Christmas !

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