Cash pile at Marian Finucane company rises to €625,000

Media companies owned by two of Ireland's best-paid presenters posted similar results last year with accumulated profits at Marian Finucane's Montrose Services Limited rising by €37,500 to €1.06 million.

Finucane, who presents a two-hour programme on RTÉ Radio One on Saturdays and Sundays, saw her company's cash pile rise more than €93,000 to just short of €625,000 for the year ended October 31st, 2017.

Separately, accumulated profits at Joe Duffy's company, Claddaghgreen Limited, increased by €62,000 to €435,697. Duffy's cash pile also rose by just shy of €93,000 to €551,244 in the year ended April 2017.

Last August, RTÉ published the salaries of its top 10 earners for 2015 which included Finucane and Duffy.

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Duffy, who presents Liveline on weekday afternoons, was the third-highest earner in RTÉ that year with a salary of €389,988. Finucane, meanwhile, was the fifth-highest earner with a salary of €295,000.

Late Late Show presenter Ryan Tubridy was the highest earner in 2015 with a salary of €495,000. Only three of the top 10 on-air earners at the broadcaster were women.