I think I moved some text around in that post, the second highlighted sentence shouldn’t follow from the first. What I meant was that saying we would implement random searches of CIA planes would mean they couldn’t transport people through our territory. That was all we had to do.
Ah right, pal. I thought you were intimating that the CIA would have been kept in line by the presence of Garda Murphy chomping sausage rolls in Shannon.
No, but I was pointing out that Garda Murphy was standing there anyway and could have killed two birds with one stone. It’s actually likely they transported prisoners through Ireland, we just were too weak to give a shit.
Jerry Kiernan
GAA in London getting 600k of Irish tax payers money does seem wrong. Surely the sports council in GB should fund it.
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 921206, member: 2272”]Jerry Kiernan
GAA in London getting 600k of Irish tax payers money does seem wrong. Surely the sports council in GB should fund it.[/QUOTE]
Abso fuckin lutely
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 921206, member: 2272”]Jerry Kiernan
GAA in London getting 600k of Irish tax payers money does seem wrong. Surely the sports council in GB should fund it.[/QUOTE]
He is correct in this instance but he is a complete knob. Move to strike, your honour.
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 921206, member: 2272”]Jerry Kiernan
GAA in London getting 600k of Irish tax payers money does seem wrong. Surely the sports council in GB should fund it.[/QUOTE]
What a surprise that you’d take such a simpleton view on this and trot out the ‘Irish tax payers money’ line. :rolleyes:
The department of foreign affairs and trade has a budget to support programmes for emigrant communities through grants. They are contributing 600k to a 5million project which will clearly be a large benefit to the Irish community in London. The GAA are paying 1.6 and the London clubs are raising the rest. What’s wrong with that? Fuck Kiernan, he is a bitter jealous GAA hating cunt.
[QUOTE=“glasagusban, post: 921278, member: 1533”]What a surprise that you’d take such a simpleton view on this and trot out the ‘Irish tax payers money’ line. :rolleyes:
The department of foreign affairs and trade has a budget to support programmes for emigrant communities through grants. They are contributing 600k to a 5million project which will clearly be a large benefit to the Irish community in London. The GAA are paying 1.6 and the London clubs are raising the rest. What’s wrong with that? Fuck Kiernan, he is a bitter jealous GAA hating cunt.[/QUOTE]
Kiernan is right on this one. GAA has the resources to fund this itself completely.
“Has a budget” is government press release spin.
No it’s fact. It’s a part of what the department does. They also are required to promote Irish cultural events abroad. If you want to have a debate as to whether we should contribute token amounts to the Irish community abroad then that’s a different question, but the way Kiernan, and you, have presented this grant is simplistic and stupid.
Kiernan hates everyone. Didn’t he have a go at McDevitt on OTB for giving rugby so much coverage as well. Athletics probably does get a raw deal in his country alright but when they bring Kiernan on to talk about it they’re only after a rant and a bit of controversy.
600k is not a token amount when the budget for high performance sport in Ireland is about 10m.
GAA doesn’t need or value the money - it has about 37m in cash reserves without including land values
That site in Ruslip is worth a few bob too.
I am a GAA supporter and Kiernan is anti-GAA but I agree with him that if an organisation can self fund (which GAA can) then government should not provide it with free money.
Kiernan was going on not too long ago about Irish athletes not being prepared to put the necessary work in to reach the top level. Basically said they were lazy.
Now he wants to give them more cash?
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 921292, member: 2272”]600k is not a token amount when the budget for high performance sport in Ireland is about 10m.
GAA doesn’t need or value the money - it has about 37m in cash reserves without including land values
That site in Ruslip is worth a few bob too.
I am a GAA supporter and Kiernan is anti-GAA but I agree with him that if an organisation can self fund (which GAA can) then government should not provide it with free money.[/QUOTE]
The 600k has nothing to do with the high performance sport budget. It is entirely unrelated. It is a grant towards a capital project that will benefit the Irish community abroad for a long time to come.
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 921294, member: 129”]Kiernan was going on not too long ago about Irish athletes not being prepared to put the necessary work in to reach the top level. Basically said they were lazy.
Now he wants to give them more cash?[/QUOTE]
His point is that there is a limited pot of money for sports and organisations such as GAA can fund themselves whereas minority sports like swimming, athletics, boxing cannot so resources should be allocated where they are most needed.
It’s a dumb point if he can’t see that this money comes from a different pot the one eyed bitter cunt.
Motor tax is not just spent on roads.
It is all one pot - tax receipts. Internal accounting and budgets doesn’t change that.
Government have their sporting press release ticked for the month.
If the 600k was going towards “better coaches” and a doping plan (except for the boxers), I’d probably agree, but giving the likes of Ciaran O’Lionaid €40k so he can finish 10th in some race and the whinge about it for days afterwards is just thowing it away.
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 921304, member: 2272”]Motor tax is not just spent on roads.
It is all one pot - tax receipts. Internal accounting and budgets doesn’t change that.
Government have their sporting press release ticked for the month.[/QUOTE]
:rolleyes:
Next you’ll be saying DFA should be allowed spend money on overseas aid because athletics is underfunded.
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 921206, member: 2272”]Jerry Kiernan
GAA in London getting 600k of Irish tax payers money does seem wrong. Surely the sports council in GB should fund it.[/QUOTE]
Jerry had the bollix bitten off him by a Rhodesian Ridgeback back in the day while jogging in Marley Park. Well done that dog.
Peter Canavan.