Some of the 240 evicted residents of the Priory Hall apartment complex in Donaghmede, Dublin protesting outside Leinster House literally moments ago. The residents have been living in temporary accommodation since October. The residents have asked for the government’s help against Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely, after he succesfully filed for bankruptcy in the UK earlier this month.

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Pat Neary. Financial regulator: €630,00 pay-off plus public service pension of almost €143,000 a year, €2,750 per week, for the rest of his life.

Kevin Cardiff, former General Secretary of The Department of Finance. Now a member of The European Court of Auditors on  a gross salary of around €180,000 a year but a net salary of €140,000 due to the low tax rate on EU salaries. The post, which is normally for a period of six years, “also involves generous pension arrangements which amount to half salary for the three years immediately after serving in office and a pension of 26 per cent of salary after that”.

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A Dublin man is among six rowers who have been rescued from a life raft in the North Atlantic after their boat capsized.
26-year-old Aodhán Kelly (top) and five others from the UK, were taking part in the Atlantic Odyssey challenge to row from Morocco in north Africa to Barbados in the Caribbean aboard the Sara G.
They were 27 days into their journey when the 36ft vessel overturned at 11am yesterday, 520 miles from their destination.
Coastguards in Falmouth, Cornwall, said the rowers were picked up from the raft, which they had lashed to the hull of their overturned boat, at 1.10am by the Nord Taipei, a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship.

 

Irishman’s Atlantic Rescue After Boat Capsizes (RTE)

Atlantic Odyssey

 

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