{"id":543929,"date":"2026-07-11T05:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T05:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:15:24","slug":"irish-ceos-pay-bonanza-and-vws-mass-redundancies-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543929\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish CEO\u2019s pay bonanza and VW\u2019s mass redundancies \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish bosses enjoyed a pay bonanza <\/a>last year, with one of them earning a staggering $237 million in remuneration. Joe Brennan has the details in this week\u2019s big read. <\/p>\n

Having started with a small fryer in his father\u2019s shed, entrepreneur Tom Keogh has built Keogh\u2019s crisps<\/a> into a product available in 29 markets with ambitions to become an iconic Irish brand like Guinness, Jameson and Kerrygold. Killian Woods spoke to Keogh at his potato farm in north Dublin. <\/p>\n

The metaphorical blood began seeping into Volkswagen\u2019s corporate carpet just after 4.30pm on Thursday, as details of mass redundancies and factory closures<\/a> began to emerge. Derek Scally, our man in Berlin, picks through the wreckage. <\/p>\n

Why do US multinationals keep choosing Ireland as a location for investment<\/a>? Eoin Burke-Kennedy says it\u2019s about more than tax and talent. <\/p>\n

State-owned companies paid \u20ac398m in dividends to the exchequer last year, according to details in the NTMA\u2019s annual report<\/a>. Joe Brennan goes through the numbers. <\/p>\n

As it prepares to close its store in Deansgrange, Lidl is revamping<\/a> its outlet in nearby Pottery Road to serve shoppers in the south Dublin area. <\/p>\n

Regulators will review energy customer protections<\/a> for the approaching winter peak season as the renewed US-Iran conflict sparks further oil and gas price volatility. Barry O\u2019Halloran reports. <\/p>\n

Humans are just a ghost in the machine as artificial intelligence<\/a> redefines \u2018good jobs\u2019, writes Margaret Ward in this week\u2019s Work feature. <\/p>\n

On a similar theme, Cliff Taylor\u2019s Smart Money<\/a> column examines how workplace relations are now inundated with vast amounts of AI-created information in a kind of arms race between employees and employers. <\/p>\n

Irish business owners are more optimistic<\/a> than they were three months ago, despite a notable shift in their concerns towards economic uncertainty, inflation and interest rates.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to On the Money<\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish bosses enjoyed a pay bonanza last year, with one of them earning a staggering $237 million in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,8319,5485,61,60,191062,16117,230332,18043,1962],"class_list":["post-543929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-business-today","tag-energy-costs","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-keogh-s-crisps","tag-lidl","tag-tom-keogh","tag-volkswagen-vw","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}