Mick Clifford: Exit packages for RTÉ executives, because they're worth it

In the rarefied atmosphere of the upper echelons in Montrose, whether executives succeed or fail, whether or not their plan works out, they always manage to walk away with a big wodge of money

Former RTÉ chief financial officer Breda O’Keeffe received an ‘exit package’ of €450,000, which was more than four times the average lump sum paid out to staff who took up the offer of redundancy. File Picture: PA

F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway may well have been four sheets to the wind in Paris when they had a fabled exchange.

“The rich,” Scott Fitzgerald said to his fellow writer, “are different from you and me.” Hemingway paused, before issuing his reply. “Yes. They have more money.”