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JP McManus donates 100,000 to every county board

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I mean it's a great gesture but when you divide it up it doesn't amount to much. Wow ! There's just no pleasing some people. Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 25/09/2018 08:09:43 2143646 Link
Replying To gahfan: "presume dublin won't be getting any" Well its really 4M€ with Dublin getting 800K and the rest of the 3.2M€ been equally divided. Since we are a Province this is only right too!! witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 25/09/2018 09:37:01 2143652 Link
Replying To gahfan: "presume dublin won't be getting any" Why wouldnt they get it? Tarismelting22 (Roscommon) - Posts: 760 - 25/09/2018 09:46:29 2143655 Link
fair play jp,every managers rate just went up by that amount for 2019! :) perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 25/09/2018 10:16:17 2143661 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Money is to be divided up among the clubs in each county....I'd say all Dublin fans know where their local club is ;)" Latte's are required at club level too a chara we're not elitest in the craddle of Gaelic football, the odd crosainte is welcome too! ;) TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 25/09/2018 10:30:42 2143666 Link
Surely the GAA are going to step in here and say thanks but no thanks. We have made great strides as a country in terms of distancing ourselves from Gambling Sponsorship. The sooner we have decent public companys like local banks, chippers and off-licences sponsoring our Sports Team and we can move away from depending on pubs and JP winnings to promote our indigenous Games and Culture. WunderBar (Galway) - Posts: 290 - 25/09/2018 11:26:54 2143676 Link
Some gems here i must admit... particularly the 1 about the lattes. Incredible gesture by JP. No doubt the revenue and or GPA will be looking for a touch from the whole thing as well. EugeneFox (Galway) - Posts: 160 - 25/09/2018 11:36:59 2143681 Link
Replying To s goldrick: "will it really make much of a difference ?. 40 clubs in Cavan that's £2,500 each. There's not a lot you can do with that. I mean it's a great gesture but when you divide it up it doesn't amount to much." You could always give it to one club. Usually this would be the most politically connected one. Or several at the expense of others. Politics would trump here too. So I think that the way that it has been divided up is the fairest way of all. Unless there is a better idea out there? Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3830 - 25/09/2018 11:38:16 2143682 Link
Happy days lads, lets hope we see the money spent wisely on updating facilities and not BS promises to "fix the potholed road" on the way into the grounds. Could see some lads taking fierce notions of themselves rocking up to training 30 minutes late in one of those whopper limo jobs, taking off his designer sunglasses with his new Grafton Barbers haircut. Some cringe factor that'll be WaitingInTheLongGrass (Roscommon) - Posts: 165 - 25/09/2018 11:38:57 2143683 Link
Everyone going on about what a great gesture this is, according to a Revenue statement from 2 years ago, McManus has paid no income tax or capital gains tax in Ireland for the past TWENTY years! https://www.newstalk.com/Irish-billionaire-JP-McManus-has-paid-no-tax-in-Ireland-for-20-years So basically he's a billionaire who's avoided paying tax in his own country for decades and so has a bit of spare change to throw at his hobbies. Shur if I never had to pay tax I'd have more money to spend on my hobbies too (but there wouldn't be a queue of people lining up to tell me what a great lad I was). ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 25/09/2018 12:05:34 2143698 Link
Replying To TheUsername: "Latte's are required at club level too a chara we're not elitest in the craddle of Gaelic football, the odd crosainte is welcome too! ;)" Tis a strange craddle that has only produced two decent teams in 90 years and one of them costing €25 million :D J.P. McManus is obviously intent on the Limerick hurlers securing world domination. A gesture like this is just part of a diabolical plan to elicit a civil war across Tipp, Cork, Clare, Wateford, Wexford, Killkenny and Galway. All he has to do is sit back and watch as hurling clubs become embroiled in a vicious struggle between themselves and their County Boards over how the money is distributed and to who!!! TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 25/09/2018 12:14:17 2143700 Link
Replying To ballydalane: "Everyone going on about what a great gesture this is, according to a Revenue statement from 2 years ago, McManus has paid no income tax or capital gains tax in Ireland for the past TWENTY years! https://www.newstalk.com/Irish-billionaire-JP-McManus-has-paid-no-tax-in-Ireland-for-20-years So basically he's a billionaire who's avoided paying tax in his own country for decades and so has a bit of spare change to throw at his hobbies. Shur if I never had to pay tax I'd have more money to spend on my hobbies too (but there wouldn't be a queue of people lining up to tell me what a great lad I was)." THink I've seen your instagram BallyDalane buying a stray dog a piece of liver and posting an essay with 12 #'s in it. Accept the Gesture for what it was, and accept the GAA in their Anti Gambling Era should be instructing county boards to return the cheque. WunderBar (Galway) - Posts: 290 - 25/09/2018 12:28:17 2143708 Link
The club Christmas parties are going to be savage altogether this year. Wests_Awake (Galway) - Posts: 877 - 25/09/2018 12:44:49 2143710 Link
Replying To s goldrick: "will it really make much of a difference ?. 40 clubs in Cavan that's £2,500 each. There's not a lot you can do with that. I mean it's a great gesture but when you divide it up it doesn't amount to much." As a Cavan person, let me completely dissociate myself from this incredibly mean-spirited comment. It unfortunately fulfills all the untrue stereotypes of mean Cavan people. As others have said, I'm sure you can propose that your club give it up if they don't want it. CeachtPeile (Cavan) - Posts: 96 - 25/09/2018 13:07:36 2143723 Link
Replying To ballydalane: "Everyone going on about what a great gesture this is, according to a Revenue statement from 2 years ago, McManus has paid no income tax or capital gains tax in Ireland for the past TWENTY years! https://www.newstalk.com/Irish-billionaire-JP-McManus-has-paid-no-tax-in-Ireland-for-20-years So basically he's a billionaire who's avoided paying tax in his own country for decades and so has a bit of spare change to throw at his hobbies. Shur if I never had to pay tax I'd have more money to spend on my hobbies too (but there wouldn't be a queue of people lining up to tell me what a great lad I was)." He does not live inside the country and he makes his money outside Ireland (even the money that payed the bills to develop his hotel). Did you ever live abroad and if you did I expect that you payed your taxes where you lived- you need to get over it. It is good to see someone giving the money to the clubs as most of the money in most counties go into county setups. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 25/09/2018 13:23:50 2143728 Link
personally I think the 100k Jp has very kindly given to Dublin should be in turn divided to the other 31 counties equally cause dublin just have way too much money and it's unfaireally that jp is funding a county board who already have too much dough .. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 25/09/2018 14:04:29 2143733 Link
Replying To browncows: "He does not live inside the country and he makes his money outside Ireland (even the money that payed the bills to develop his hotel). Did you ever live abroad and if you did I expect that you payed your taxes where you lived- you need to get over it. It is good to see someone giving the money to the clubs as most of the money in most counties go into county setups." Taxes he pays in the country he is in are a lot lower than almost all other countries. This is the point, not just the fact that he lives abroad and not in Ireland. Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3830 - 25/09/2018 14:53:42 2143750 Link
Replying To browncows: "He does not live inside the country and he makes his money outside Ireland (even the money that payed the bills to develop his hotel). Did you ever live abroad and if you did I expect that you payed your taxes where you lived- you need to get over it. It is good to see someone giving the money to the clubs as most of the money in most counties go into county setups." Indeed he doesn't hes a resident of the great nations of Switzerland and Barbados - countries we all aspire to put on the jersey for I bet. And fair play to him for not paying his taxes here, why would he bother seeing that great chucked into the sewer that is the Dail TD's pension! I think hes pure sound out for putting money to an actual worthy cause for a change WaitingInTheLongGrass (Roscommon) - Posts: 165 - 25/09/2018 15:31:23 2143757 Link
Replying To WaitingInTheLongGrass: "Indeed he doesn't hes a resident of the great nations of Switzerland and Barbados - countries we all aspire to put on the jersey for I bet. And fair play to him for not paying his taxes here, why would he bother seeing that great chucked into the sewer that is the Dail TD's pension! I think hes pure sound out for putting money to an actual worthy cause for a change" Well said lad. Id rather see a few more lads line the pocket of the struggling gaa club than the revenues ** pocket. EugeneFox (Galway)** - Posts: 160 - 25/09/2018 16:35:51 2143772 Link
Apparently GAA HQ are absoloutely flabergasted at the method that Jp Mc Manus used in dispersing these funds. The belief that each county was to be treated equally with this fund was seen as "out there" and this approach was further seen as "preposterous in the extreme" by GAA officials when it was revealed that the smaller counties who need it the most were to receive the same as the stronger counties who dont need it as much with officials in HQ left scratching their heads at the thought of helping each county out to the same level. Apparently Mc Manus took the approach that there is 32 counties and as they all start on the same grid each year, on the same journey, they all merited the same donation, a move that the GAA have labelled as "setting a dangerous precedent" tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1326 - 25/09/2018 16:56:54 2143775 Link