Ex-Anglo staff earning over €500k...

Half a dozen people at IBRC — formerly Anglo Irish Bank — earn pay and pension packages in excess of €500,000 a year, it has emerged.

The revelation provoked fury among victims of swingeing home help cuts, who say they are suffering because the Government has got its priorities wrong.

Kathleen Comerford, 89, who has had her meagre one hour a week of home help taken from her, expressed shock that vulnerable elderly people were being targeted.