Dermot McCarthy. Retiring civil servant, pie lover.

During his tenure of more than a decade, Mr McCarthy was most associated with the social partnership process. He was secretary general to three taoisigh: Bertie Ahern; Brian Cowen and, in recent months, Enda Kenny. He was the taoiseach’s main adviser during the Northern peace process. He was also in position when the banking sector collapsed; when the economy was thrown into recession and when the previous government was forced to rely on intervention from the EU and IMF.

 

Dermot’s retirement package

In addition to his annual pension of €142,670, Mr McCarthy was also paid a once-off lump sum of €428,011. He was also entitled to another special severance payment of €142,670.

The overall package was worth €713,000.

While Mr McCarthy’s annual salary had fallen from €285,000 to €208,000 as a result of a series of pay cuts affecting high-earning public servants and ministers, his final salary for pension purposes remained the original figure of €285,000, leaving him with the lump sum of €428,000.

 

Benchmarking, social partnership, the bailout.  Worth every red cent.

€713,000 Retirement Package For Top Civil Servant (Harry McGee, Irish Times)

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During an off-road event in the Czech Republic last month,this jeep flipped upside-down into a mud hole. The safety team was quick to respond and save the driver from drowning.

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‘Shopkeeper Rick’ sez:

Kerry Spring have changed their bottle design. They have replaced the usual squared off bottom with a round base that is literally impossible to stand up for any length of time. Try it yourself.

As Kerry Spring is the most expensive water to buy wholesale with, on average, a 20 per cent mark up on all other  water brands  from anywhere in the world, perhaps they saved a few more cent by making their bottles fall over easier thus requiring the purchase of a new bottle of Spring. And so it goes on.

 




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