Wages at 2fm

I saw that. He was invoicing them for 10 grand a month!

Granted, he was on a national breakfast show but he was a very ordinary talent - local/regional standard to me.

Instead of moaning to the press, Walsh should look back fondly on the days when he punched way above his weight.

Also, that Head of 2FM is some clown paying out that kind of money.

I don't like RTÉ 2fm nor can I ever forgive him for the diabolical breakfast show with Joe Donnelly on Phantom 105.2.

To put it into perspective, though, he was invoicing €10k a month as a contractor, that's the net final cost to RTÉ.

Whereas if he were an employee, as well as his posted salary, RTÉ would be paying employer PRSI contributions on his behalf (8.8% on the first €441 per week and 11.05% on everything else) and possibly pension contributions too so his listed "wage" wouldn't be the net final cost to RTÉ.

He's not going to have seen anything close to €120k in his pocket once he made all of the statutory deductions - employer PRSI (due on his behalf by his operating company), employee PRSI (deducated from his effective wage as an employee of that company), USC, PAYE, pension contributions, along with fees that you naturally incur as a registered company such as accountant costs, filings with the CRO and then 12.5% corporation tax on whatever is left at the end.

I wouldn’t say Iain Dempsey is on €120k a year as a breakfast show host

A lot of money for a breakfast show that failed. Nevertheless, don't understand what keith walsh is crying foul about. He was well compensated for the fact he was a contractor. He's claiming to be speaking on the behalf of the people of Ireland about RTE overspending but also thinks he should have a job for life? One of the reasons RTE is broke is because they gave out jobs for life for presenters, that's why there's presenters on Gold earning more money than they should be

He was offered the conditions and accepted, he also never spoke out while he was there. He knew the conditions all along but it's only a problem when his gig ends.

Presenting never was, nor should it be, a job for life.

Did he take the tax breaks and benefits as a contractor than a permie employee?

He could have said no but didn’t and took the contract on offer.

Crocodile tears if you ask me

I would assume he is on significantly more than 120k

Because, Shan, the employment terms under which they are/were contracted are potentially illegal.

RTÉ have employed a lot of staff on terms that are effectively full time employment contracts on one hand yet coming without the Legal and State protections that such contracts should afford employees from their employer. There are other sectors who took the mickey in the same manner (Construction to name but one.); however RTÉ are arguably the highest profile example.

And while it is hard for many of us to feel pity for the likes of Keith, it should be pointed out that they also employed newsreaders, producers, technical crews, makeup artists, set designers, presenters; even admin staff on such terms. And between us and the walls, lower profile staff were working for far more modest wages and on far poorer terms and conditions.

I am not going to get involved in the main topic of debate here. I just want to touch upon Keith Walsh's radio career in relation to Phantom prior to his arrival at 2FM. Firstly, the article in Evoke referred to his previous radio career without mentioning his time with Phantom immediately before 2FM. Instead it said he was with Today FM. I don't think he was. Secondly, while it is true that he did a stint as PD with Phantom, he had left before the changes leading to TXFM. He left Phantom in December 2013 and the big station changes took place in the spring of 2014.

2FM should have been dumped years ago, this is another reason why

He’d be on multiples of that.

while it is true that he did a stint as PD with Phantom, he had left before the changes leading to TXFM

Sorry, no. He may have been gone when the rename from Phantom to TXFM happened, but he was absolutely on board when the substantive change, i.e. the takeover by Communicorp, happened and he was a senior member of staff when people were being exited.

Walsh got the PD after Ger Roe and Simon Maher got the bullet, and he was there when the weekend presenters and support staff were culled. He got his job in 2fm two months before another raft of redundancies, which was fortuitous timing for sure, I'm not sure anyone else landed on their feet quite so spectacularly and quickly.

So for him to be crying now about the injustice of it all is rich to say the least.

Point taken. I was referring to the latter changes though, when he had left, and, in particular, that he was not part of TX FM. I was just going over my post and the other big point I was making was that Evoke did not even mention his time with Phantom at all.

Radio 1 can put them out to stud on Radio 2 when the reach a certain age. Do 2fm have anywhere to send their older presenters?

RTE Gold has plenty of room for them.

He is chancing his arm. if he was a full time employee he would off being on a much lower salary and rte would of fulfilled his prsi, tax etc but he was a contractor and got the benefits of it. he wants his cake etc . I think he is trying to put himself on the same footing as some of the fair city cast ( another shitshow, i wonder if all the eastenders, brookside etc are classed as full time employees).

In fairness huge difference between someone on 10 euro an hour and rte abusing the contracting laws then someone on a 100k whos knows exactly what he is entitled to. He's acting the bollocks tbh

this guy 🤦‍♂️ The levels of delusion are off the scale! He was a very middling presenter of no great distinction and his show got canned. Happens all the time.

I don’t think he’s doing his future employment prospects much good either with this nonsense. Love him or loathe him but contrast this carry on with Fergal D’Arcy for example. He got dropped. He kept the head down, kept his counsel, because he knew mouthing off like this would be more harm to his future prospects than good.

Not just D'Arcy, plenty of radio people get walked all over by bosses and continue to take it and then when they get pushed out continue to keep the head down. Radio is far too small in Ireland and your 'radio rival' today can be you colleague tomorrow and vice versa. Then we will all have a pint at the IMROs and b1tch about the station you used to work for all while chatting to your former PD about how bad the new place is!!!!