Louise McSharry Moaning Michael her brows are a fright, views so left, she's always right

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Thump said:
Unfortunately you are still expected to contribute to some of the costs of raising your child even if it was an unplanned pregnancy. That’s all that is happening here. Low income = subsidised crèche fees. Not subsided? Then you are not deemed low income by whatever criteria the department is using. If you’re not low income, why would you not pay your own child’s childcare?
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I'm sure people are happy to pay for childcare. They just don't feel they should be crippled by the cost, or that it should be an accepted norm that many women who would prefer to remain part of the workforce are instead pushed out of the workforce due to said childcare costs.
 
MissHavisham said:
I'm sure people are happy to pay for childcare. They just don't feel they should be crippled by the cost, or that it should be an accepted norm that many women who would prefer to remain part of the workforce are instead pushed out of the workforce due to said childcare costs.
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My point of view is that on the other hand people and families are crippled by taxes to the extent it’s not worth some people’s time going out to work. Childcare costs are painful but temporary, the child will eventually go to school and the burden of them will lift, but taxes are for life.
 
Thump said:
My point of view is that on the other hand people and families are crippled by taxes to the extent it’s not worth some people’s time going out to work. Childcare costs are painful but temporary, the child will eventually go to school and the burden of them will lift, but taxes are for life.
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Not disagreeing with you here, but childcare costs didn't stop or lower for me until my children finished primary school. After school care was not much cheaper than the cost of childcare pre ECCE. Obviously once they were in secondary/old enough to be left alone, the costs did lift, but it wasn't when they started school, it was when they were essentially teenagers.
 
JakeMcEvoy said:
Not disagreeing with you here, but childcare costs didn't stop or lower for me until my children finished primary school. After school care was not much cheaper than the cost of childcare pre ECCE. Obviously once they were in secondary/old enough to be left alone, the costs did lift, but it wasn't when they started school, it was when they were essentially teenagers.
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I was sitting here thinking.... I know that name from somewhere. Jake 😂 brilliant
 
OK I don't understand how they're so skint. She's got a national radio show. The husband works.

I don't get it. I'm not saying they're loaded or anything - I believe her when she said she made very little from her book given the smallness of the domestic market - but they have 2 good incomes, surely? Sometimes she talks as if she's on the bones of her arse!
 
Sooz said:
OK I don't understand how they're so skint. She's got a national radio show. The husband works.

I don't get it. I'm not saying they're loaded or anything - I believe her when she said she made very little from her book given the smallness of the domestic market - but they have 2 good incomes, surely? Sometimes she talks as if she's on the bones of her arse!
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I noticed this too surely they have two well paying jobs etc maybe they have a big mortgage?

JakeMcEvoy said:
They reduce ever so slightly in comparison to baby years but they are still expensive. I was paying for daily afterschool care from ages 4 to 12 while the children were at school because work is until 5 and school finishes 2.30/3pm. Care for every day after school, and full time during mid terms and holidays. It cost nearly 700 per month for one child. "Discounted" for the second. Purely just to attend work. Sure its not the same as newborn care but it was still extortionate.
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Extortionate for sure ☹️
 
Sooz said:
OK I don't understand how they're so skint. She's got a national radio show. The husband works.

I don't get it. I'm not saying they're loaded or anything - I believe her when she said she made very little from her book given the smallness of the domestic market - but they have 2 good incomes, surely? Sometimes she talks as if she's on the bones of her arse!
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She's happy enough taking free orthodontics but is mouthing about paying for her kids creche, EVEN when she doesn't work during the week.
 
No, the house is a rental, she's mentioned it a fair bit.

I'm sure it's a fair whack of rent, mind you. It is a two storey in Dublin. But surely with 2 incomes they're OK?
 
Sooz said:
OK I don't understand how they're so skint. She's got a national radio show. The husband works.

I don't get it. I'm not saying they're loaded or anything - I believe her when she said she made very little from her book given the smallness of the domestic market - but they have 2 good incomes, surely? Sometimes she talks as if she's on the bones of her arse!
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Avg. salary for an RTE producer is in around 4k p/month, I'd guess she might be on 60-70k at an absolute push, she's not doing a full time show. But she does do collabs, which we all know pay serious wedge.
Curious that they don't own a house, but I suppose buying in Dublin is a very difficult market.

The creche is a luxury expenditure for Louise, but let's move on from that topic; no one will ever agree on what the right system is.
 
RTE just published their top 10 pay scales and in 2019 Mary Wilson earned €196,961. She was the 10th so there were 9 national broadcasters earning (much) more.

Now in fairness she presented Drivetime on 2FM which was more popular and she was presenting it for longer so I'm not suggesting Louise is anywhere near that.

But it's indicative of the huge money that national broadcasters make. So Louise is not on buttons in there.

She's getting her teeth for free. She got her garden redone for free....I dunno. Seems like the rest of us are all working and paying for creches but shes got the constant poor mouth all the time?
 
Scrk1994 said:
Avg. salary for an RTE producer is in around 4k p/month, I'd guess she might be on 60-70k at an absolute push, she's not doing a full time show. But she does do collabs, which we all know pay serious wedge.
Curious that they don't own a house, but I suppose buying in Dublin is a very difficult market.

The creche is a luxury expenditure for Louise, but let's move on from that topic; no one will ever agree on what the right system is.
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60-70k for her weekend show? The 4 hours a week she does on air? Surely not, but then it is RTE so anything is possible!
 
Thump said:
60-70k for her weekend show? The 4 hours a week she does on air? Surely not, but then it is RTE so anything is possible!
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We might only hear her for four hours a week, but a huge amount of work goes into preparing for a radio show! I‘m sure she has to do lots of research, read upcoming guests’ books, select tracks to play and prepare interview questions. Maybe she has researchers, but surely way less than the likes of Morning Ireland.
 
murphao said:
We might only hear her for four hours a week, but a huge amount of work goes into preparing for a radio show! I‘m sure she has to do lots of research, read upcoming guests’ books, select tracks to play and prepare interview questions. Maybe she has researchers, but surely way less than the likes of Morning Ireland.
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I doubt it’s a 40 hour week tho by all accounts. Certainly does nothing for my sympathy levels for her in regards to her outgoings. That doesn’t even include her other earnings from writing for the indo, her ads etc.
 
Thump said:
60-70k for her weekend show? The 4 hours a week she does on air? Surely not, but then it is RTE so anything is possible!
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I'm estimating on the higher scale, because RTE are renowned for their extravagant salaries - she could be on less.
Forgot about her newspaper columns, more earnings!
 
I really like Louise. I find her honest and entertaining. I find her reviews to be honeat to a fault and she seems to spend time trying stuff out before she reviews. I like her style too. I would watch her stories most days and I think she said she was paying for her braces? Where or when did she say it was a collab?
 
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