PRIME Time host Miriam O’Callaghan has said she has been “incredibly sad” over the RTE pay scandal.
Miriam is the latest presenter to publicly reveal her salary.
But the mother of eight said she didn’t know the story “was coming down the tracks”, adding she feels like listeners and viewers “have been badly let down”.
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In a statement she said: “For the purpose of transparency, honesty and clarity, I want to put on the record that my most recently published fee from RTE – 263,500 euro – is correct, as are the published fees for previous years.
“I have never received additional payments from RTE that were not publicly declared.
“It’s hard to put into words how incredibly sad I have been since this story broke last Thursday.
“I had no idea this was coming down the tracks. I feel you, our listeners and viewers, have been badly let down.
“I love RTE – it’s a wonderful place to work, full of superb people who work very hard and conscientiously every day to deliver good programmes.
“Right now, there’s profound shock, anger and sadness among everyone working there.
“All we can do as journalists now, is cover this story as rigorously as we cover every other story.
“That’s what we did on Prime Time last Thursday, on the day the story first broke, and that is what we will continue to do.”
It comes in the wake of Claire Byrne and Joe Duffy also revealing their salaries earlier today.
