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THE SEARCH FOR TIPPERARY STRIKE BACK HAPPINESS PLUS Jamesie O’Connor: winning tactics for Wexford & Waterford, SPORT EVIL WHYI €5 Emily Hourican on DEEDS HOME finding joy after cancer SCHOOL OFF 20 years after car wash at IN LIFE MAGAZINE Brendan Smyth, Maria Steen, Page 14 Page 30 SundayIndependent Vol. 112 No. 29 23 July 2017 city final 921,000 Readers ¤3.00 (£1.60 in Northern Ireland) Sharon speaks out on RTE pay gap as Dobson joins ‘Morning Ireland’ JESSICA O’GARA Niamh Horan Sharon Ni Bheolain. comes as RTE plans its biggest Ni Bheolain said: “As some- of me not to comment.” but, for the record, my pay revelations of significant pay Taking life with EXCLUSIVE Mr Dobson is among RTE’s newsroom shake-up in years, one who values her privacy She continued: “I can con- is still considerably less than disparities at the BBC. Minis- top 10 earners — with an with Mr Dobson set to move to the very notion of sharing firm the 2014 pay disparity that of Bryan’s. I won’t be ter for Communications Denis Ronan in her THE pay gap between RTE’s annual salary of €195,816 in the Radio One current affairs my salary with your newspa- you reference was accurate. commenting further.” Naughten says he wants the best-known newsreaders has 2014, but it is understood flagship Morning Ireland. per is abhorrent to me. I do However, this pay gap has Mr Dobson was contacted salaries of all RTE staff earn- stride IN LIVING been revealed, with Bryan that Ms Ni Bheolain is paid In response to questions recognise, however, inequality since narrowed. In return for last night but did not return ing more than €100,000 a year Dobson earning between considerably less. over whether Mr Dobson is and gender pay are key social a pay rise, I have also under- calls. published annually. €60,000-€80,000 a year more The news of the gender pay on double her salary, accord- issues in need of examination taken extra duties. I believe The gender pay gap was than his female co-anchor gap between the newsreaders ing to RTE’s 2014 figures, Ms and so it would be cowardly that I am well remunerated, brought into sharp focus by › Full story on page 3 Squeezed middle GAME OF want tax cuts as THRONES Leo soars — poll Emilia Clarke on TV, nudity and feminism IN LIFE Philip Ryan POLL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS, PAGES 4 & 20 EXCLUSIVE THE squeezed middle are rise in support, more than throwing their support be- two in five (41pc) white-collar hind the Government but voters want to see tax cuts in want to be rewarded with the Budget, while around one tax cuts in the Budget, a in three (35pc) want the Gov- Sunday Independent/Kantar ernment to focus on spending. Millward Brown opinion poll Meanwhile, Mr Varadkar’s has revealed. appointment as Taoiseach has The exclusive opinion also resulted in a significant poll shows confidence in the nine-point swing between Government has soared to Fine Gael and the main oppo- a six-year high since the ap- sition party Fianna Fail. Fine pointment of Leo Varadkar as Gael support has increased Taoiseach, but those backing by five points to 30pc, while the new Fine Gael leader now Micheal Martin’s Fianna Fail expect to have more take- has dropped four points to home pay in their pockets 29pc since the last comparable after the Budget. poll taken in February. The number satisfied with While public support for the Government has jumped the two main parties is almost a massive 13 points to 40pc, neck-and-neck, Mr Martin will which is by far the highest be concerned about the shift level of support for a Fine in support from Fianna Fail Gael-led administration since to Fine Gael since the change the 2011 general election. in Taoiseach. Mr Martin has Satisfaction with the Gov- continually ruled out bounc- ernment is higher among pro- ing Fine Gael into a snap vote fessional and working voters but the party has increased (49pc) and those living in its election preparations in Dublin (54pc) where the eco- recent weeks. nomic recovery has improved The Taoiseach’s personal at a faster rate than other satisfaction rating (49pc), TALENT: RTE newsreader Sharon Ni Bheolain: ‘Inequality parts of the country. and gender pay are key social issues’ In return for this dramatic Continued on page 4 BRENDAN O’CONNOR Uh oh! It’s a good day in Ireland HERE’S an uneasy liked Enda. And we even ing to happen everywhere. raised its economic growth feeling around the like Fine Gael a bit more. We Someone seems to have projections to 4.8pc for this Tplace. It’s almost like even warmed to that little managed to rebuild a beauti- year and 3.8pc next year. a perfect storm. A perfect Bob Cratchit lad in the De- ful outdoor swimming baths And none of the mysterious storm of positivity. Not only partment of Health when we in Clontarf without a huge jobless growth we enjoyed is the sun shining, which saw him getting married on row or making a balls of it. for so many years. In fact, traditionally causes Irish Friday. If the phrase ‘lovely And it will open, not in 10 this economic growth will people to lose their marbles girl’ hadn’t been outlawed years — the usual time span be driven in part by employ- and completely forget who your mother would say his on many projects — but in ment growth of 3pc this year we are, but U2 are home, new wife Caoimhe Wade six weeks. They seem to have and 2.4pc next year. reinstated for now as the looks like a lovely girl. And just quietly done it, without And to top it all last week, greatest rock ’n’ roll band in being a nurse we imagine fanfare. we even heard the unlikely the world. she is capable and bossy in Even Michael O’Leary is phrase “Ireland strike gold And then there is this a nice way, so she’ll set that contributing to the gaiety in the 100m at the European curious situation whereby, lad straight. And seeing of the nation. There was championships” as diver- according to our poll today, Enda and Fionnuala looking something comforting last sity started to pay more people don’t seem to hate younger than their years week about him assuming dividends and 18-year-old the Government as much and in love arriving at the again his traditional role as Irish girl Gina Akpe-Moses as is considered proper and wedding, it was as if all the what Jennifer Zamparelli became our latest athletic traditional. It seems we like bad stuff about Enda melted called “the biggest pr**k in champion. Leo. It seems we like him away, forgiven, forgotten. Ireland”. Not once but twice All this good stuff is very a whole lot more than we Unlikely things are start- in one day he popped his unsettling, and of course head up on Radio One to some of us would prefer to Recommended retail price of the Sunday Independent in R.O.I is €3.00 do his stock material, like keep portraying the country Vol. 112 No. 29 C calling his own customers as “some kind of hellhole of whingers. Comforting, too, Calcutta” as Brian Hayes put to hear Joe Duffy having a it in Glenties. But maybe, good old barney with him on just for today, it would Liveline. It felt as if the natu- be OK to just savour this ral order had been restored. moment, and think, it’s not And then Bank of Ireland all bad. 23 July 2017 Sunday Independent C NEWS 3 Sharon reveals gender pay gap on TV news desk Arguably more bankable, RTE newsreader Sharon Ni Bheolain earns considerably less than her male co-anchor, writes Niamh Horan HE pay gap revelations of significant between RTE’s pay disparities at the BBC in best-known Britain. newscasters has At least 10 female Tbeen revealed BBC presenters are now with Bryan Dobson earning considering legal action if between €60,000 to the corporation does not €80,000 per year more than narrow the gender pay gap. his female co-anchor Sharon The women, household Ni Bheolain. names from radio and While Mr Dobson television, were furious to is among RTE’s top 10 learn that male colleagues earners, with an annual who shared their job salary of €195,816 in descriptions are significantly 2014, it is understood that better paid. Ms Ni Bheolain is paid Back on this side of considerably less. the Irish Sea, the Sunday The gender pay gap Independent has learned between two of the national that the pay gap between broadcaster’s most familiar RTE’s main TV news faces comes as RTE plans its presenters was even greater biggest newsroom shake-up until a few years ago. in years. At one time, Mr Dobson When contacted earned double the salary yesterday, Ms Ni Bheolain, in of his female co-anchor — response to questions over though, arguably, she has whether Mr Dobson is on the greater recognition double her salary according factor among TV viewers. to RTE’s 2014 figures, said: She was even referenced “As someone who values her in TV adverts for Carlsberg privacy, the very notion of beer. sharing my salary with your The figure emerges as the newspaper is abhorrent to BBC faces fierce criticism me.