The GAAâs Asian liaison officer @Turenne was onto this sharpishâŚ.
Former GAA star under investigation sought cancer treatment money almost a decade ago
By Simon Carswell
Were these separate BMWs or the same one?
Safer to presume itâs made up.
Wonder when the mental health/gambling addiction card will be played
It would appear itâs true:
Something was bound to be eventually. Law of averages.
When all this broke last week, I thought of that story about the stolen BMW, and I thought âBoyzone plane crash in Australiaâ.
Hereâs the thing. The mystery GAA star and his sister appear to have had a genuine falling out over money. Was it a genuine falling out at all? Were they in cahoots all along or did they independently arrive at the position where both were independent fraudsters?
If only Kilkenny had a sugar daddy to give them cushy jobs in âconsultingâ there would have been no need for any of this
Recruitment is the new consulting
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Big money game that
Paul Flynn will never top the recruitment sham. Getting the GPA to use his recruitment company to find him the best candidate for the GPA role advertised. Skullduggery at its finest.
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In fairness the sums being spent were beyond the patience of any reasonable sponsor even were they âearnedâ
He told everyone he met he didnât want to make a big deal of it, he wanted it kept quiet. I doubt a race night would work then. And Christ man, not everything has to be about betting and horses.
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The man in question is and will be villified here and rightfully so but hard not to have some sympathy for someone who clearly caught in a debt spiral and fell into full panic mode. Itâs sad it ever came to this as someone with his brilliance on the pitch deserves to be duly compensated for that alone. For all his greatness as a hurler heâs still only a human and he has erred, signicantly so.
The knives are out for the former GAA star now, it wonât be long before the Joe Duffy brigade are demanding his head on a spike. Every day there are more and more crawling out of the woodwork now to join in the kicking but bad as the nature of his alleged crime truly is, how many a GAA player has had violent episodes of their doing magically getting brushed under the carpet down the years? Or worse
After some many years of service to club, county and the game itself that it has now has come to this is profoundly sad. It strikes me that the institutions that benefited most from his glory days on the field maybe should have done more when he really needed help. Maybe they still can. Iâd hate to think of some lad today whoâs given everything to his County and to the GAA not being able to turn to them if finding themselves in dire straits after hanging up their boots.
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Itâs Shakespearean. It has all the elements.
Itâs also a parable for our times.
This mystery GAA star has seemingly done very bad things. But there is still a reflex instinct on the part of many of his erstwhile and not so erstwhile fans to protect him in some way. Many of those who will not rush to protect him will choose to remain silent, hoping to wake up tomorrow and realise all this was a bad dream. Many of those who are criticising him are doing so with the heaviest of hearts. Because people cannot forget how he made them feel.
People are mourning their youth and mourning their innocence here. It isnât a nice feeling when a personal hero falls so spectacularly, when a personal hero turns out to have been a massive cunt. The bargaining begins. Maybe the acts were cuntish, but maybe heâs not really a cunt, maybe heâs a victim of circumstance.
But the truth is, if this mystery GAA star was not a mystery GAA star dear to the hearts of the plain people of Ireland, the plain people of Ireland who are now reluctant to call for a head on a spike, would be furiously demanding a head on a spike.
People are scared of the truth here. They are scared that the hero will take all this badly and do something even worse, like take his own life.
The truth will out. It has to out. It has to be faced up to.
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Different if in dire straits due to a string of failed investments or a lavish lifestyle surely⌠If a fella needed a dig out coz he was sick or lost the job or something agree 100%
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Are Young Irelands in junior or intermediate hurling now? DJ and Charlie Carter really inspired a golden era in that club. Aside from the 2 senior titles they also won their sole minor A when DJ was in his final year at that grade too. I presume they got a bit of a boost when the two sons started playing for them.
Edit: I see theyâre still a solid intermediate outfit.
Solid intermediate might be over stating it, theyâve been at the lower end of the grade for the last decade. They have some good young lads coming up along with the two Careyâs so should be getting closer in the coming years.
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No, nor seats even, once you have it booked all the way.
Fuck sake Laz. It was used to find a lifestyle that the vast majority of those donating couldnât dream of. The lifestyle was ongoing.