It does tickle me how the INTERNET apparently now thinks a television presenter making a decent wedge is worse than people who shot Gardai, prison officers and Irish soldiers dead.
As an unlikely guardian of the establishment you are probably missing the point here. The establishment can be criticised without it being a Russian/IRA plot.
I thought exactly the same thing. How different is this to the Employee Benefit Trust wheeze that Rangers (RIP) used to pay extortionate wages to their ‘stars’ what with side letters etc. Hopefully a few more of them will be sweating with Duffy top of the list.
In reality the true cost of this will be close to a million if he were treated like a PAYE worker. 75K x 5 years is only net portion but RTE should have been paying payroll taxes on that too which would double the €375K figure. Also would likely to have been interest of 10% per year from revenue. I dont know what kind of fines they’d get. Depends on category.