The fact that it’s not equal is exactly what gas people so annoyed.
The head of the ESB on over 800’000 pa is a joke. Both the ESB and BORD GAIS have war chests of cash which they keep for themselves. Bored GAIS is reputed to hold over 16 billion in reserves and refuses to invest it in the Irish nation from whence it came. This is the pure sickness from within the system. That sort of funds could transform the irish economy if it were to be invested correctly.. I think Conor your pushing an open door it’s just that it’s not all equal despite our best protests…

Totally agree with you Conor. Was going to say something similar. The high earners (not bankers but Educators, other private sector) have always been there. We live in a democratic society, not a communist one. Work hard, educate yourself, put in the hours over years, you deserve the reward. (If you’re doing a good job)

Fas is a joke, so they post joke jobs, everythings “normal” here in my opinion :-)

Hi @Tonacatecuhtli

The Sunday Times article details some of the posts involved. These include a number of academic posts.

Like every other element of the public sector. The money goes to the useless flab in the middle but the frontline staff get all the flak by being the public face of the public sector.

Thanks Emer. Just that I heard from a Dublin-based lecturer that most of the money goes to administration. I’m sure this story will ‘have legs’ as they say and we’ll get more detailed info later in the week.

Why? If you want the best you have to pay for them, you know what you will get when you pay peanuts… Hmmm then again we have been paying politians well for years and we still had monkeys (no to insult the monkeys who probably would have done a better job)

Your blaming the individuals? Would you turn down a six figure salary?

If we’re going to improve, we need a realistic assessment of where we are. This is sadly lacking at 3rd level in Ireland, where people have a grossly inflated sense of their own importance. Trinity is certainly a fine university by international standards, but, realistically, it’s a “Tier 3” school, not “one of the best in the world”. Look at any ranking that is based on hard metrics (e.g. SJTU’s ARWU), and not on fluffy anglo-biased survey nonsense (e.g. QS/THE) that leave room for confusion with “Trinity College, Cambridge”, and you’ll see Trinity as it is actually seen internationally: respectable, but nothing special.

Thats because city centre workers use the car park at UCD as a free park and ride, Very few students actually get parking places.

Now!