Top Bord Gáis staff in secret bonus bonanza

Payments approved following Centrica sell-off.

Secret bonuses of as much as €75,000 per head were paid to at least 50 high ranking Bord Gáis staff as part of the deal that saw its energy division sold to a British consortium, The Sunday Business Post can exclusively reveal.

The semi-state company, now rebranded as Ervia, made the “transactional” bonus payments after Bord Gáis Energy was sold to Centrica for €1.1 billion as part of the government’s sale of state ...