Cork weirdo/sicko thread

[mikehunt]

You don’t agree with state contributions for the GAA because they don’t allow their pitches used for other sport but happy for state funding to private schools. Incredible hypocrisy.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tim_Riggins

I do not see the relevance here.

You brought up fee paying schools and paying for some teachers. You seem to be all over the place in what you actually want with them but the argument is not exactly relevant to what we are discussing.

If it were the case that “rugby” schools outright banned the GGA then you might have a point in mentioning them. But they didn’t. Blackrock College played hurling for donkeys years. The “Rugby schools” GGA competition had started when Liam Brady was being expelled from school for playing a soccer game over a GGA one.

If you want to get into the rights and wrongs of the state paying for teachers in all schools (and come up with a coherent argument unlike the flailing statements you’re making here), then go and start a thread on it.

My point is, and it is directly relevant, is that by subsidising fee paying schools the State is subsidising rugby. Do you think for a second that if Belvedere had to pay their own teachers that they could afford to keep Phil Warahiko as a full time rugby coach?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tim_Riggins

For a handsome rental fee.

The world over this happens.

When the FA were rebuilding Wembley they entered into a business transaction with the WRU to use the Millenium Stadium.

Did we see the level of arsekissing we did over it?

Ireland v England in 2007 was a historic occasion, no doubt about it. But what is conveniently ignored are that the rules against foreign sports preceded this.

You move on and get on with it.

The GGA actually didn’t. It is brought up time and time again as some monumental act. The rule still exists with a couple of alterations. It was a business transaction at the end of the day and the GGA made great money out of it.

I’m still sour about it myself, but I suppose the money was put to good use in South Dublin.

[Tim_Riggins]

I don’t think you can read.

[Tim_Riggins]

Belvedere do have to pay teachers.

The proportion of teachers that are paid by the State is less in fee paying schools than in free schools.

All parents pay taxes and are entitled to a free secondary level place. They don’t take that, saving the State money.

It’s quite simple really.

The GGA is also played in many of these schools, as are lots of sports. Big deal.

[gilgamboa]

@Fagan_ODowd

I suppose one of the problems that rugby had at the time was it didn’t have these kind of zealous individuals in its ranks.

Did Fr Fehily come along later? He was a zealot

[Esso_Oil]

Dont really want to add to this shit storm but just a few questions to inform the less erudite of us that try and keep up

• Did the govenment fund part or any of the failed bid to host the rugby “world Cup” in a country that hadn’t the facilities to host it? Can we get that money back?

• The govenment owned banks that screwed the country during the crash continued to sponsor three of the countrys professional teams. Is this nit state aid? Can we get that money back as well?

• The deal to re-build PUC with 30m government grant aid was great business by Cork GAA but who pressured the Government into doing this? Was it not under pressure by the rugby bid was going in without PUC was to make the bid more of a joke than it already was.

• Is it the magnitude of the 30M figure that is at issue or the point that no money should have been spent? Is the Curragh racecourse available to other sports? It get a shit load of grant aid. Dont talk t me about the greyhound crowd. They go through money faster than they go through slow greyhounds.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tim_Riggins

Belvedere do have to pay teachers.

The proportion of teachers that are paid by the State is less in fee paying schools than in free schools.

All parents pay taxes and are entitled to a free secondary level place. They don’t take that, saving the State money.

It’s quite simple really.

The GGA is also played in many of these schools, as are lots of sports. Big deal.

Last time I checked Belvo didn’t have a full time coach for the ping pong team.

[Tim_Riggins]

And?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tim_Riggins

And?

My taxes are subsiding Phil Warahiko.

[Tim_Riggins]

How?

[carryharry]

@maroonandwhite

Dinosaurs in your eyes?

They refused the family of a Local international footballer who dies from Cancer very young a Charity Match?
He played in PUC as a child.

Fuck history, it’s a game.

The family are Dinosuars?

[binkybarnes]

@backinatracksuit

@Tim_Riggins making very light work of the dinosaurs here, it’s a massacre

Are you serious? @Fagan_ODowd is bitch slapping him around the place

[mickee321]

@artfoley

@dodgy_keeper

Nothing, I didn’t know the chap.

sure in the same spirit you could ask dan what he’s done for kevin walsh’s family after he was killed by a munster player

oh fuck, ooft

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Oooft

[horriblecunt]

in fairness, horse and dog racing don’t receive free money from the government. They get a levy that’s taken from betting. these sports exist primarily for the purpose of betting, so the rightly receive a cut. The government is basically acting as the collector/redistributor.

In most countries in the world the racecourses themselves get to keep the lions share of the money that is bet on their races. Oireland and UK are actually the oddball outliers on this, because they have legalised bookmakers. It’s also why oireland and the brits have some of the worst prize money in the world despite having some of the highest per capita gambling on racing. Check out average purses in Japan and HK and the US where the track gets to keep the handle. It’s also why you pay a tidy sum to get into a racecourse in ire and uk, where in other countries they practically let you in for free.

[mikehunt]

You’re comprehension skills are shit. After all those fees you paid. You should ask for your money back.

[Mac]

@horriblecunt

in fairness, horse and dog racing don’t receive free money from the government. They get a levy that’s taken from betting. these sports exist primarily for the purpose of betting, so the rightly receive a cut. The government is basically acting as the collector/redistributor.

In most countries in the world the racecourses themselves get to keep the lions share of the money that is bet on their races. Oireland and UK are actually the oddball outliers on this, because they have legalised bookmakers. It’s also why oireland and the brits have some of the worst prize money in the world despite having some of the highest per capita gambling on racing. Check out average purses in Japan and HK and the US where the track gets to keep the handle. It’s also why you pay a tidy sum to get into a racecourse in ire and uk, where in other countries they practically let you in for free.

There’s some mistruths in that but I couldn’t be arsed getting sucked into this thread.

[the_man_himself]

@mikehunt

You’re comprehension skills are shit

Ah mate

[carryharry]

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