Pay cut for Druid’s Garry Hynes as Arts Council funding falls

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Garry Hynes, the artistic director of Galway's Druid Theatre, has had a 12 per cent salary cut following a reduction to the organisation's funding from the Arts Council Ms Hynes received a salary package of just over 128 thousand euro in 2012 but her projected salary package for this year is just under 108 thousand This year Druid Theatre company has received 762 thousand euro, down 58 thousand on last year In December the Arts Council wrote to all organisations in receipt of more than a quarter of a million euro in public funding asking them to identify any staff earning more than 90 thousand Druid said Garry Hynes was the only staff member this applied to In 2012 Garry Hynes volunteered to cut, and then phase, out the additional director's fees element of the package which ran to just under 20 thousand euro According to the Sunday Times her basic salary was also cut last year by 5 per cent, although Druid's contribution to her pension increased from 5 per cent to 10 per cent Garry Hynes received 128,420 euro from Druid while her projected salary package this year is 107,718 which represents a drop of just under 21 thousand euro