He’s some cock. I see Johnny Ward’s nose getting out of joint too over Sun Times getting all the credit for the exposé and the rest of the Irish media being toothless.
There are lads on tfk that spend 40k in 6 months on credit cards doing bidiness.
There’d better be something incriminating in the 40k or I’ll be suing on behalf of Dela.
This is outrageous.
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The Healy-Raes come cheap.
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why is there a GAA umpire in the middle of it?
Do fellows think that you can get influence at the top of soccer without buying movers and shakers good wine and food .
what is an acceptable sum of expenditure on this card?
Delaney could yet drop a few bombs .
FOOTBALL IN CRISIS
John Delaney racked up €40,000 spending on FAI credit card in just six months
Mark Tighe
April 14 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
FAI executive vice-president John Delaney took out more than €6,000 in cash on the company cardÝINPHO/TOMMY DICKSON
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John Delaney, the executive vice-president of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), spent almost €40,000 on his work credit card in the last six months of 2016, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
While Delaney was on a salary of €360,000 as chief executive, he used the FAI credit card to pay for duty-free purchases at airports, meals in his local pub in Wicklow and to make cash withdrawals of more than €6,000 in six months.
Purchases on Delaney’s FAI credit card included €400 at a Hilfiger store, more than €500 on two visits to an executive dry-cleaning outfit, and a €226 bill from Thomas Pink, a store that claims to have perfected “the traditions and intuition of English shirtmaking”.
The FAI said “no comment” when asked about Delaney’s credit card expenses, and about a separate €60,000 payment made by the association in early 2014 to a third party labelled as “professional fees”.
The Sunday Times also found that, on top of Delaney’s company credit card expenses, the FAI paid a bill of €8,018 in December 2015 to cover his stay at the Ritz-Carlton hotel beside New York’s Central Park. The hotel features soundproof windows and feather beds dressed in goose-down duvets, while guests are offered a choice of pillows from a menu.
As director of Waterford Football Club in 2001, Delaney called on then FAI chief executive Bernard O’Byrne to stand down pending a review of his use of an FAI credit card. O’Byrne subsequently accepted an exit package amid allegations that he used the card for personal spending. O’Byrne, who repaid the sums in question, blamed the issue on an “administrative error”.
Delaney’s FAI credit card included 13 separate bills from Plucks, his local pub and restaurant in Kilmacanogue, amounting to a total of €563 in six months. He also had charges of €119 from Kurt Geiger, an upmarket British footwear and accessories retailer, and a €91 bill from Cath Kidston, a “distinctive lifestyle brand”.
Staying power: Delaney’s bill at the Ritz-Carlton in Dubai came to €4,474
The credit card statements show Delaney had a tendency to withdraw cash using the FAI card in sums ranging from €100 to €250. In just over 40 cash withdrawals in six months, Delaney withdrew more than €6,180. These withdrawals incurred bank charges of more than €115 for the FAI.
On July 21, 2016, Delaney withdrew €200 and €150 from the Topaz garage in Kilmacanogue. On the same date, the credit card was used to withdraw the sterling equivalent of €265 in Terminal 2 of Heathrow. On October 7, the day after Ireland won a home World Cup qualifier against Georgia and two days before the team played away to Moldova, Delaney withdrew €600 in cash in three transactions.
The largest single charge on the credit card in the six-month period was a €4,474 bill from the Ritz- Carlton five-star hotel in Dubai in December 2016. Guests in the hotel enjoy personalised service and daily culinary presentations plus access to a private beach. While in Dubai, Delaney charged a bill of €219 from the Madinat Jumeirah resort and another bill of €271 at the Asia Asia restaurant. At the same time he paid €1,170 to “Aster Home Care”, which appears to be a healthcare company based in Dubai.
Delaney’s credit card bills show that while in London he usually stays in the Arch, an upmarket hotel near Marylebone. From six separate charges, the FAI has paid €4,202 for use of this hotel.
In September, Delaney amassed a bill of €225 from Gaucho Tower Bridge, a restaurant known for its Argentine steaks and stunning views of the Thames. Delaney has also enjoyed fine dining in Ireland with cumulative bills of €250 from two visits to Marco Pierre White’s Steakhouse and Grill. Another €72 was spent on two bills from “Kingfisher takeaway”.
Delaney travelled extensively in 2016 as he campaigned successfully for election to Uefa’s executive committee in April 2017. He charged more than €7,300 on his credit card for flights in that six-month period. There was €355 spent on duty free. He also charged more than €2,000 in petrol station bills, including a €66.74 purchase in Michael Healy-Rae’s Mace shop and garage in Kilgarvan. Last week the Kerry TD spoke in Delaney’s defence at an Oireachtas committee hearing into the FAI’s corporate governance.
Last week, the FAI refused to answer any questions about Delaney’s credit card expenses or say if he reimbursed the association any of the charges, or if he was required to present receipts for his expenditure. The FAI responded “no comment” when The Sunday Times asked whether the association had a policy on staff using company credit cards to withdraw cash.
It is understood the FAI is able to get reimbursements for tickets Delaney purchased for Manchester United and Celtic matches under an arrangement with the clubs. The former chief executive’s credit card was used to buy more than €2,300 worth of tickets from these two clubs in the six-month period.
Delaney’s solicitor did not respond to queries yesterday
Delaney is being blackguarded here.
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All TFK jokes of coming to Delaneys defence here aside, this is bonkers. There is no governance here.
How can you buy clothes on a company credit card? If you can what FD says it’s okay when receipts are presented back? Why hasn’t he been issued a Circle K card for instance like the rest of us who drive on behalf of our company?
Genesis Report me hoop
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How would your man have got hold of this credit card info?
Thought that too. Freedom of Information came to mind but that can’t be the case
Presume he has a ‘source’ in a bank of credit card company. Whoever shared it should be fired for it.
Edit - either than or he has the ear of a disgruntled junior paper pusher in the FAI finance department
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Don’t think there was a chance of getting the Europa League Final to Dublin or becoming a Euro 2020 host city without our then CEO dressing smartly.
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A serious breach if that’s the case alright.
I agree, but buy it out of your €360k a year salary.
You’ve done auditing before, you know this is wrong. Continue with your parody comments for the laugh but this is gone beyond a joke
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What’s this Tighe fella ever done before this? He seems like a fella with an axe to grind.
mickey mouse money, he bought diesel in kerry ffs, jesus christ.
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