Latest accounts for Cork-based media group Thomas Crosbie Holdings show a payment of €1.05 million last year to a former director as compensation for loss of office. Presumably, the beneficiary was Anthony Dinan, TCH’s former managing director, who left the company in June 2010 after a 30-year stint.
This generous exit package came in the same year that staff at the Irish Examinerand the Sunday Business Posttook pay cuts and had their pension entitlements cut. TCH made a pretax loss of €6.4 million last year.
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Conall O'Morain, a man who wears many career hats, is to host Today FM's Sunday Business Showon a weekly basis from January.
He currently rotates the hosting duties with Anton Savage, the PR executive who is taking over Sam Smyth’s former slot.
O'Morain himself is active in PR and pens a weekly column for the Daily Irish Star.
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Dubliner Jason Kennedy, chief executive of Grafton Employment Group, picked up the Entrepreneur of the Year gong at the recent Recruitment International Awards in London.
The judges noted his “vision and implementation of an extensive change programme” to steer Grafton back to growth.
