This would be wildly unpopular opinion but a man told me once that those kind of charity events were a drain on the community and there was rarely anything to show for it. The person usually has a terminal disease and the money is swallowed up by medical costs and dubious treatments in America. He reckoned community events where there was a legacy left afterwards like a community center, pitch etc were far more worthy causes.
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Ya you could be right but in fairness I think the money raised was mainly as fund for his son.
Iām more mid 50ās
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He was a sound auld divil,he used to cut the hedges down here with the big Zetor.I walked up from Slas that morning and it was like the ploughing championships with the field full of tractors and all the lorryās backed up down to the bog road.
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Mohill GAA are constantly going to the community looking for money. They employed a manager who they had to sack and then paid off and went back to the community looking for money again. A very bad feeling towards them in the community as a result - not the players, the admin.
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And rightly so. Some neck to go to the community lookin for money to pay a manager.
I presume there are people lining up to replace the Club Exec after this.
No - they just complain about it but ultimately pay up.
Nobody wants to do the job but everyone wants to cut the back off the lads doing the job.
A tale as old as time.
Thereās probably something in that in the case of terminal illness. However there is a success example locally where a 4 year old kid needed to travel to the US for an operation to help the child walk proved hugely beneficial. The HSE would perform the procedure when the child was 12, in which time the kid had missed out on its childhood.
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Agreed. And DJ Carey speaks very highly of the charity work done for him by the community. He was in an awful spot til people helped out.
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Thatās a different scenario. To be fair he was talking about specific fundraisers for facilties that will be there for years, as opposed to just generic club fundraising for day to day activities.
I also donāt understand how youād have to pay off a club manager? He hardly had a contract? Iām sure if the club suggested they get advice on how to treat the payment from Revenue he wouldnāt be long fuckin off.
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I imagine he was due a few bob from previous weeks and they had to pay it up when they gave him the heave ho.
I donāt know the full details but thatās the story I heard.
Then of course they brought in a local lad to take over and gave him nothing.
Once you get him a gilet, polo shirt, shorts, tracksuit bottoms and a half zip its all heāll want.
Fuck Mohill is all Iāll say
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Liverpool should cash-in on Mo Salah if the Saudis come looking.
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Id imagine thatās a very popular opinion.
Possibly. I think theyāve the best of him got, his value will only go down, and Klopp, much as I loathe him and the murderous institution he fronts, would likely do wonders with the money
Itās much too late now to do anything with the money.
Salahās goal scoring record speaks for itself. Heās likely to score 20 - 25 minimum again this season.
Heās an animal yeah but I think he might be slowing down. And his value is still sky high