Universities still paying 100 staff €200k-plus

FIVE universities are still paying 100 staff over €200,000 a year, including more than 30 at University College Cork.

Even after public service pay cuts and reductions in pay for top third-level managers last year, two people at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and one at University College Dublin (UCD) are being paid over €250,000.

All but 11 of the 100 top-paid employees are academic medical consultants, who are included in talks between consultant representatives and Health Minister James Reilly about a pay ceiling.