Chairman Eoin O'Driscoll will have to be on his guard as the top finance bros in Barclays Irish office might be a little miserable these days. The rest of the Barclays group has followed the big US banks in removing the cap on bonuses of just two times salary. This, I believe, has been raised to as much as a maximum of ten times base salary. JP Morgan is at this level and Goldman Sachs is potentially looking at up to 25 times base salary. However the poor bankers in Barclays' Irish subsidiary are still covered by the more restrictive EU rules. This covers the so-called material risk takers (MRTs) of which Barclays Ireland has 135 across Europe, including its chief executive Francesco Ceccato. While the top banker was paid between €4 million to €5 million, it might be hard to hold on to some of the real rainmakers.