Pat Laffan - who played Pat Mustard and Georgie Burgess - has died

A job pays money. That money is called earnings. What don’t you get?

Stealing ‘pays’ money. That money is called …

Fill in the dots, good man.

Nice one journal rub it in

Does that mean you can do the job?

There are no hidden fees for any service from a bank (you just have to read the smallprint and booklets) and nobody is forced to borrow money. Banks provide services and they involve risk. That’s it.

But that “risk” is never the bankers or the bond holders. Just the poor saps below that glass ceiling. All thanks to the neo liberalism of FF, FG and Labradooles

Mortgage rates in Ireland since the mid 2000s are pretty reasonable compared to what was available historically. As recently as the early 1990s, rates were up as high as 18%! Currently one can achieve a rate of around 4.5% variable. That’s not exactly extortionate, comparatively. I live in New Zealand and my fixed rate is 5.4%, and that was a fairly low rate historically (the available rates having fallen further since due to escalating house prices). You can’t necessarily blame banks for charging for their services, as they have always done. People took on these crazy 110% mortgages back in the Tiger days, not exactly the current banking regimes fault, a certain amount of responsibility must fall on the banks customer. Now don’t think I enjoy paying bank fees if I can avoid it, but there must be an understanding that services have a cost. You get paid interest by the bank for the facility of them using your deposited money, and as such, it works the other way.

that’s all good but the banks are getting money at zero rate plus ecb are buying assets

The jealousy on here is hilarious. People who can hardly count, let alone understand economics and complex mathematics, moaning about smart men and women who have made successes out of their careers. Sad really.

What is sad Alan is that the rivers of Ireland are full of dead bodies directly attributable to the collapse of the Irish banking sector, Directly attributable to these same bankers, and while decent working people are still suffering pay cuts these super intelligent fat cats are still lining their own pockets. vote Fine Gael. Vote Labour.

Welcome to the ‘earning less than a million club’ Seamie.

Look at the graphic again.. they all earned under €500K in fixed salary, even the top person who took home €2.5M after bonuses.

It’s the variable amount, i.e. the bonus component based on performance, that brings these people into the €1M+ total earnings.

The same people who f**ked it up are still in charge.
You’re wrong. Good day!

go dig out the annual reports for the main banks in 2007 and then dig out the same for 2014. line up the executive committee then and now. and report back….

allowing the banks to fail was the right answer? really? of course it seems like the right answer in the depth of a recession – we all wanted to be iceland. but we are now in a position were unemployment rates are falling, people on dole is falling, USC is going to be cut further (more so than WC incr!), public sector wage increases are being put through. of course the man on the street is angry but recovery in asset prices is the first thing to happen. we are now going into the second leg which is money in people’s back pockets. i will bet my bottom $ that in 2016 & 2017 people will notice the difference and the recovery in ireland will broaden outside of Dublin. you are already starting to see asset prices recover outside of Dublin. Go and look at GDP growth rates on “google” for Ireland versus Iceland and see how you now feel? PS: a lot of the bankers that were in charge at the time are now gone. some have even gone to prison. there is a market rate for any job and internal remuneration committee – if you think it is that easy a job go and apply / work in the industry.