{"id":171134,"date":"2025-11-09T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171134\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:08:11","slug":"rtes-oliver-callan-ive-said-no-to-a-free-kitchen-and-free-cars-a-lot-of-people-turned-themselves-into-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171134\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9\u2019s Oliver Callan: \u2018I\u2019ve said no to a free kitchen and free cars\u2026 A lot of people turned themselves into billboards\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As the presenter moves to a new slot tomorrow, he discusses RT\u00c9 pay, why he has decided not to announce his new salary and the Matt Cooper\/Ivan Yates controversy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oliver Callan agrees with the \u20ac250,000 pay cap on RT\u00c9 presenter salaries. Photo: Bryan Meade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a9c69454-2b84-4a73-858a-760fad77f3ee.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Oliver Callan agrees with the \u20ac250,000 pay cap on RT\u00c9 presenter salaries. Photo: Bryan Meade<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Oliver Callan is recalling an encounter he had on the street with Pat Kenny. It\u2019s Thursday afternoon in D\u00fan Laoghaire and we\u2019re discussing presenters\u2019 pay when he describes what the Newstalk presenter once surmised about presenters\u2019 earnings at the height of the RT\u00c9 crisis over pay and secret side deals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI bumped into him on the street and he just said, \u2018You know all of these figures for presenters? You\u2019re paid a bit for the work\u2026 then you\u2019re paid the extra bit to put up with all the shite!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the presenter moves to a new slot tomorrow, he discusses RT\u00c9 pay, why he has decided not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5364,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-171134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-niamh-horan","13":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115518957604622464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}