Make the cap fit

Saturday, November 21, 2009

WHO do Irish bankers think they are?

We were given to understand their top pay was to be capped at €500,000 a year. Now we find they had been blatantly paying a lot more. But for the fact that AIB wanted to appoint a new lord high executioner (to the ordinary man in the street, at least), we might never have found out.

Let a cap be a cap, not a headband. Headbands can stretch and slip leaving the top of the head exposed.

I suppose bonuses will come next and we won’t hear a thing about them unless the media are vigilant.

The media must watch these people and stop being used as tools to drive wedges between ordinary workers whether public or private.

Pat Browne
Skehard Road
Cork

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Saturday, November 21, 2009