Comments on: Letter To Brian Goggin, Bank of Ireland CEO

By: Ronan O'Sullivan

Ronan O'Sullivan — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:51:31 +0000

Bock I laughed myself stupid at your article. It's just priceless! Thanks.

By: burn them our of their homes

burn them our of their homes — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:58:59 +0000

Time for the revolution.

By: marie

marie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:30:26 +0000

The people of Ireland should march on Dail Eireann and demand that any banker, gangster or politician responsible for bringing our country to its knees is immediately tried for treason and jailed for life.

Cut bank executive pay NOW.

Brian Goggin is a disgrace -How dare he make such comment —

Has anyone checked out his background ?

Bank of Ireland has recently informed Bank of Ireland staff in the UK that it plans significant job reductions.

This will make a large number Irish staff of Bank of Ireland in the UK redundant.

Brian Goggins salary of just under 2 million euro would pay the annual salary for 66 employees each earning 30,000 per annum

Is he worth 66 good people?

I think not.

By: Abdul

Abdul — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:59:04 +0000

A considerable amount of people reckon that Colonel Kilgore's (as brilliantly played by Robert Duvall) best line in Apocalypse Now was "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning ….The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory. However, my favourite line from Kilgore is, to a bemused looking Captain Willard, ( as brilliantly played by Martin Sheen), "someday this war's gonna end… – the idea that
the war would end was a source of impending disappointment for Gilgore for those not familiar with this classic – surreal.RTE had their surreal moment last week with Brian Goggin, BOI chief. Goggin mentioned that his salary would drop below 2million this year. There was a brief pause after that statement, that delay….and Goggin staring out into his abyss, looking at the interviewer with that abstract Gilgore expression, was, we are to assume, responsible for that surreal split second delay. But I would not go about nailing Goggin on his use of the word, "substantially" in relation to the fact that his income will drop this year – from the 2.7m he earned last year. All things being relative, Goggins income has dropped substantially, and he is suffering, relatively, along with his relatives – we can feel his pain. Meantime, last week, courtesy of RTE, we became privy to a mindset that has brought this country to the brink of financial Armageddon. It was a key moment in public broadcasting in this country, a rare insight the mindset of a fellow citizen who, and he's not alone, is living in a parallel universe. As Willard is informed about Kurtz (who Willard has to remove – with extreme prejudice) by General Corman, "He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct." …

Likewise with our bankers. They have been allowed to operate beyond the pale of any acceptable financial conduct. But what we need now is someone to take them out with extreme prejudice. Are you up for it Brian Lenihan?

By: elle walsh

elle walsh — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:35:24 +0000

Poor old Brian. He used to be my boss! At least he's not as badly off as the last head of BOI. He got shafted for looking up Las Vegas strippers on the internet in work – he brought in legislation that banned workers using the internet for anything other than work and had to go because of it! God I miss the auld bank. It was a great source of laughter for me.

By: Benny the Bridgebuilder

Benny the Bridgebuilder — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:38:23 +0000

It used to be called "take home pay" (ie after tax etc.) but that is now too simple a concept. These guys get options and all sorts of "not yet brought to book" considerations.

Why don't we convert all his income into a fixed value of BoI shares at their previous valuation and pay them at today's.

Ditto for the rest of the shower.

That would really give you a cadre of motivated executives, if it's not too late.

By: OrganDonor

OrganDonor — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:44:29 +0000

When the camera froze on his face for an uncomfortable couple of seconds i actually burst out laughing.It was like an interview on Watchdog with someone who got swindled out of their life savings by a Bulgarian Property Company..disgraceful..

By: Mr Magoo

Mr Magoo — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:34:34 +0000

Maybe he will be seeing on his own bank statement "Referral Charge" for the first time, sure how is a fella meant so stay within his overdraft limit on that kind of a pay cut…god love him

By: Ash

Ash — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:01:22 +0000

I found the phrase disclosed compensation a bit strange too, what was undisclosed! Your right though, he is in the same boat as the rest of us, I too will be taking home less than two million euro this year, I will have to cut out the champagne baths, I may have to make do with several bottles of wine from Lidl to lounge around in.