Judges earned €35.68m last year, despite salary cuts

Ireland’s judges — who saw their pay slashed last year in an emphatically supported referendum — still earned a €35.68m salaries, pensions and other payments bonanza throughout 2011.

Judges earned €35.68m last year, despite salary cuts

Figures released last night in a series of Department of Finance reports show the payouts were provided to the legal hierarchy in the Supreme, High, Circuit and District courts.

The major payments equate to an average of €223,036.68 per judge, or €611 per day.

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