Minister Patrick O'Donovan is comedy gold. Discussing Derek Mooney on the News at One, he said, "He was a presenter, he is a presenter, he is obviously a presenter. It's like a duck - if it walks and quacks like a duck, It's a duck."
Think your question answers itself.Derek Mooney got paid e197k last year by RTE. Does he even broadcast anymore?
Scandalous that they took him back in after his shit show in politics and then for no need put him on executive money. That alone exemplifies what an inept corrupt organisation it is. If he didn't have the public purse mismanagement, he is squarely at community employment in local east coast radio announcing funerals. Useless cants.It gets worse: poor George Lee, RTE's pantomime villian, scaring the common folk about the climate holocaust and, before that, the Wuhan Wheeze, has been knocked down to tenth place in the earnings chart with Mooney's reclassication. Poor George earns a mere e196,000 pa. But the good news is that it's pensionable.
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George Lee a victim of RTÉ keeping Derek Mooney pay a secret for six years
Derek Mooney’s secret salary was left out of RTÉ top ten earners for up to six years.m.independent.ie
How many hours a week does Brendan O'Connor do for his e250k? And RTE is a secondary gig to his job at the Sindo.
He presents a one hour nature program from 10-11pm on a Monday on Radio1. hes credited as an executive producer on the same and hes paid almost 200k a year. scandalous waste of money.
It's corrupt editorially as well, always pushing the Dublin 4 "liberal" agenda. License feepayers can't even look at the Eurovision and granny hoping the Swarbrigg Brothers are about to make their comeback.Scandalous that they took him back in after his shit show in politics and then for no need put him on executive money. That alone exemplifies what an inept corrupt organisation it is. If he didn't have the public purse mismanagement, he is squarely at community employment in local east coast radio announcing funerals. Useless cants.
It gets worse: poor George Lee, RTE's pantomime villian, scaring the common folk about the climate holocaust and, before that, the Wuhan Wheeze, has been knocked down to tenth place in the earnings chart with Mooney's reclassication. Poor George earns a mere e196,000 pa. But the good news is that it's pensionable.
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George Lee a victim of RTÉ keeping Derek Mooney pay a secret for six years
Derek Mooney’s secret salary was left out of RTÉ top ten earners for up to six years.m.independent.ie
