Incidentally, I’m told there’s no payment to Sky from RTÉ in return for the Player’s premier positioning on the platform. Not even a little something from one of the barter accounts.Paddy McKillen told the Financial Times he had been inspired by the Viet Cong in his refurbishment of Claridge’s in London. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire
“We are no longer prisoners of geography on our little North Atlantic island. We are liberated by technology and the power of AI,” businessman and round-the-world sailor Enda O’Coineen told staff at the Business Post on Tuesday after the conclusion of exhaustive talks with the Swedish publishing group Bonnier News, which has taken a strategic minority investment in the Business Post Group.
What a difference 20 years makes. In 2003, the chief executive of the NTMA was Michael Somers, and he received a bonus of €303,000, or 69.6 per cent of his salary. In 2008, his second-last year in the job, Somers was paid €565,000 and a bonus of €403,000. Still, being chief executive of the NTMA is a good deal less onerous these days. With the economy awash with cash, Ireland will need to borrow much less on international markets over the coming years.