€2.4m paid to 3 Origin directors

THREE executive directors at Origin Enterprise shared a €2.4 million pay pot last year, up from €2.2m a year earlier.

However, aggregate employment costs of the agri-services company’s 1,263 employees, including executive directors, fell to €71,567, from €75,590 in 2009.

The pay of chief executive Tom O’Mahony, 48, came to €984,000, including a bonus of €360,000, for the year to the end of July 2010, according to the company’s annual report published yesterday. The 2009 report did not give a breakdown of individual executive directors’ annual pay.