Rothwell a shrewd operator

HOW to be mean to a millionaire: Quote his €687,000 salary and recall how he was accused of employing a Filipino beautician on €1 an hour.

Or show pictures of his south Dublin mansion complete with lush gardens and swimming pool and compare it to the ships he expects immigrant workers to call home.

But if Eamonn Rothwell is either mortified or miffed by comparisons between his personal wealth and the sparse lives of his imported workers, he doesn’t show it.