Riverdance directors share pay bonanza of €1.63m

The creative forces behind the entertainment phenomenon, Riverdance, have shared a pay bonanza of over €1.63m over the past two years.

The show, spawned from a seven minute long interval performance at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, celebrated its 20th anniversary last year and has been seen by more than 23m people over the past two decades.

Accounts just filed by Moya Doherty and John McColgan’s Abhann Productions Ltd for 2014 and 2013 show that directors’ pay over the two years topped €1.6m. Both share a seat on the board with David Orr and aggregate pay to directors more than doubled last year from €540,023 to €1.1m.