Kielty was speaking at an event in Belfast over the weekend 👀
She told her listeners that her most recently published annual salary of €350,000 is"correct", along with"those published in the past".The radio presenter explained that she took a €70,000 pay cut when she stepped down from hosting the TV show Claire Byrne Live on RTÉ 1 last year, but confirmed that she is still earning €280,000.
She also revealed that she earned a separate €25,000 for hosting the TV quiz show Ireland's Smartest, which ran on RTÉ 1, and that she was sharing these figures in a bid to earn listeners' trust. "I acknowledge that fee is significant and way beyond what many people could hope to earn. There are others who will, no doubt, have more to say about it I am sure, but my personal decision here this morning is to be open and honest with you," she said in the opening of her show."I hope that you can trust me and the team of journalists I work with, to cover this story with the same rigour and balance as we would any other story on this programme.
"As programme makers, our aim is to be consistent, fair, and professional and to respect the hard-earned trust that you, the audience, have in us," she also told her listeners."I wasn’t even aware that presenters' fees, including my own, were subjected to a Grant Thornton review. I knew absolutely nothing about it."
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