In the 10 part Netflix documentary this will be episode 7 - âThe comeback beginsâ
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Youâre some simpleton
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Its time to bring Dela home.
Delay limited. 
must be a reference to his treatment of debtors during his tenure
Waterford can have him
Delaâs back baby
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Ah its brilliant altogether
John Delaney pictured with officials as St Michaelâs are beaten by Waterford in FAI Cup
Heâs after putting on a lot of weight.
I wasnt unfortunately due to an unsuitable kick off time, but there seemed a good bit of activity at Delaâs homeplace when I drove past around 3pm so no surprise the great man was home.
Its probably the months mind mass tomorrow for Delaâs father Joe who passed away a few weeks back.
Dela will always be welcome in his home town.
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And little place else
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Anybody able to post that up from behind the paywall?
Mark Tighe
Sun 16 Jul 2023 at 02:30
John Delaney is recruiting Irish contacts to become directors of brass-plate-style companies for overseas businesses involved in selling cannabis oil and other e-commerce schemes for âŹ3,000 a year.
He has boasted that it is âmoney for jamâ.
A Sunday Independent Investigation has established that Delaney, the former chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), has helped recruit some 10 Irish people as directors for companies that want to sell goods and process payments from bank accounts and companies based in Ireland.
A representative of the UK company that Delaney is working with told an undercover reporter that Irish recruits would be directors of firms whose businesses include dating websites, selling cannabis oil and body-building supplements.
Insisting the scheme was âone million per cent legitimateâ, the UK company formations manager said his firm works with a small number of adult entertainment sites but recruits would not be required to work with them.
âQuick one for you. I have a scheme that can make you three grand a yearâ
Companies that are incorporated in a country but that have no real connection with that country are known as brass-plate operations.
Last springtime, Delaney approached a number of his former supporters in amateur football about the scheme, sending them voice notes on WhatsApp.
In one message, he boasted about meeting Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys at a âŹ195-a-head black-tie St Patrickâs Day ball in London.
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In the message, Delaney told a football volunteer based in Ulster, that âunfortunatelyâ he no longer had access to a box in the Aviva Stadium for matches.
He said Minister Humphreys had discussed the football volunteer at the event where they met.
âGreat lady,â said Delaney in the voice note. âShe came over to me at a function and said âhelloâ, which is very good of her. Top woman.â
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys says they talked for 30 seconds
In a separate message, Delaney said: âQuick one for you. I have a scheme that can make you three grand a year and 500 quid that will help with any introduction you give. Itâs directorships of companies in Ireland.
âYou canât have been a director of a company before, thatâs all. So, a lot of my mates are doing it. Itâs 100pc legit by the way, I wouldnât put it to you otherwise. Text me if itâs of interest and Iâll get the stuff sent on to you followed on by a Zoom call.
âAgain, itâs your decision if you want to go with it or not. But itâs a handy three grand and you get 500 quid for everyone else who does it. 100pc legit. Cheers.â
After the sign-up material was emailed to the grassroots football activist, Delaney sent another voice note.
âJust a quickie,â said Delaney. âDid you have a look at that proposal? Gimme a shout today. Itâs money for jam, pal. Gimme a shout back.â
A separate football activist received a similar approach from Delaney. The former FAI CEO said he had a scheme for him to âmake a few quidâ.
The material sent out to prospective directors came from Mark Rooney, who works with Merchant Connect Incorporations (MCI), a business based in Essex in England.
It helps online traders apply for merchant account facilities and with acquiring banks and payment service providers in Europe and North America.
Rooneyâs email contained a PowerPoint presentation that said his clients include âvariedâ business activities that âcan include the sale of goods, movie streaming, gaming, e-books, fitness, social networking, CBD sales, among others.â
âThis is not a sales proposition, you are not required to pay any feesâ
The presentation said all clients and their activities âare vetted by our compliance team internally before they are even considered for this opportunityâ.
The presentation said the recruits would be âbusiness franchiseesâ.
âOur existing clients are offering the blueprint for a successful business model and need appropriate individuals to take up the position as owners of the business entities,â the presentation says.
âThis is not a sales proposition, you are not required to pay any fees, costs or expenses of any kind. You will not have to report to any location. This job is done completely remotely from home. Perfect opportunity to make extra money.â
The presentation said the recruits will have minimal work.
âYour main duties will include reviewing and signing any necessary documents that may be required and providing them back via email or post,â it said. âYou will need to be responsive to email daily as this is our main way of communication.â
The presentation said directors will be paid between âŹ2,500 and âŹ5,000, with the first payment due within three months of the merchant company processing its first payment.
Applicants are required to be over 21 and have no previous directorships or company shareholdings. A director must have no felony criminal record and be willing to provide up to six months bank statements, a copy of a passport and utility bills. They are expected to commit for two to three years.
In a call with an undercover reporter professing to be interested in the scheme, Rooney said Delaney knew his boss and the former FAI CEO was helping with the âonboarding of directorsâ.
âHe said Delaney had helped recruit some 10 Irish directors for MCI but they had more clients than directors currently available in Ireland. He said Delaney helped bring them people who are âkosherâ.
MCI has over 600 directors recruited in the UK and Rooney said he had recruited family members and neighbours into directorships and âeverybody on board has been happyâ. He said the Irish companies would have no employees but needed the directors to set up Irish bank accounts. He said a recent Delaney recruit had only had to sign two documents in three months and had received âŹ1,500 already.
One person Delaney approached in Ireland told the Sunday Independent that the former FAI CEO Delaney said his directorship role would involve a company processing large amounts of cryptocurrency. Rooney, however, said he was not aware of any such cryptocurrency business.
A director who 'hands over the keysâ to someone else does so at their peril
Asked if the companies included selling pornography, Rooney said: âCan I be upfront and honest with you? We did a lot of adult entertainment before I started. Because the boss wanted to attract more high-brow clients we had to move away from that. We now have very, very few adult entertainment clients.â
In England, Rooney said his company had recruited someone who works in a prison, and a mortgage broker. He realised having an âadult entertainmentâ directorships âwouldnât go down very wellâ with their employers.
He said MCI could not say what company a prospective director would work with. Once an applicant is vetted and approved, their details are presented to clients to decide if they want that person to become a director of their Irish company.
Rooney added the companies were like Deliveroo and Amazon, but were involved in selling CBD oil and âgym protein pills and powdersâ.
He said the work involved signing a small amount of paperwork each year and he would âalways be on the end of the phoneâ to give guidance.
âYou wonât sign anything until we see it first,â he said.
He said Irish directors received slightly more money than their British counterparts as they were required to use their home addresses for the newly incorporated businesses.
In a recent High Court case involving Greymountain â an Irish company involved in a $186m (âŹ165m) international binary options trading fraud â Judge Michael Twomey ruled that the âcorporate veilâ protecting Greymountainâs directors from personal liability could be pierced, because the two paid Irish directors had provided a âtotal lack of oversightâ.
A senior counsel experienced in corporate governance who was consulted by the Sunday Independent on the MCI scheme said: âA director of an Irish company has a duty to exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence in carrying out their functions. They owe a range of other duties under companies legislation and arising from case law.
âA director cannot take a âhands-offâ approach. In some circumstances the court can make a director personally liable for the companyâs actions: therefore, the director cannot use corporate status to shield themselves.
"This is so, even if the director did not actively involve themselves in the companyâs day-to-day affairs. A director who âhands over the keysâ to someone else does so at their peril.â
The Sunday Independent approached Delaneyâs solicitor for comment but received no response. MCI did not respond to questions.
Since leaving the FAI in 2019, Delaney has set up a new life as a business consultant in the UK. He works through his company Delay Ltd and has had a baby girl with a new partner. Delaney is under investigation by the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) in Ireland for suspected company law breaches during his time at the FAI.
The CEA investigation has stalled due to a three-year legal battle with Delaney over access to his FAI emails. A Court of Appeal judgment is due presently.
In recent months Delaney has worked with a number of UK football clubs on commercial deals.
In a social-media post, Delaney was named by Birmingham City as being among its clients who attended the clubâs annual corporate golf weekend in Marbella earlier this year.
Delaney was also thanked publicly by Murray Millgen, Hibernian FCâs head of commercial, for helping set up a deal between the Edinburgh club and Omnia Group Services to provide outsourced payroll work.
A spokesman for Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys said there was âno meetingâ with Delaney in March.
âThe minister was in attendance at an Irish function in London during her St Patrickâs Day visit,â he said. âShe passed the concerned individualâs table and said hello. The extent of the engagement was about 30 seconds.â
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When Dela insists something is 1 million percent legit you have to give him the benefit of the doubt
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How are those types of organisations legal?
Dela made it all possible.
Mallon has always come across as a very fair journalist.
But, but, but DelaâŚ
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Ye pathetic cunts
Who were the feeble minded fools on here who backed Delaney. Same lads who were easy prey for Marxist agitators ?