John O'Donoghue claims back stg£1 Charity donation

Papa_Lazarou

AS it says in the title. This disgrace of a man actualy claimed back a £1 donation that he made during a visit to scotland. This is the man who will be entitled to a severance package of €90,000 over the next to years while even though he is resigning he's waiting till tuesday to do so, so that he gets automaticaly re-elected if the greens call for a general election. Its people like this that have got this country in the mess its in.

The full story is here. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ceann-comhairle-reclaimed-pound1-donation-to-charity-1905969.html

arybvtcw0eolkf

Honestly, you have to laugh to save your sanity sometimes!.

The cheeky bastard.

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Long Onion

It is an innovative way to get rid of the coinage in your pocket before boarding the plane back home - perhaps he should be the next minister for finance?

niceirishfella

I going to say it as its been boiling up in me for a long time -

HE'S A RIGHT C*NT!

Jesus Wept

It looks like he didn't personally claim it, he charged it to the tax payer.

Anyhow, 'stealth charity'/'opt out if you want to make yourself seem like a cunt charity' is a load of bollox and I fucking hate hotels that do this shit. Fúck them.

yom 1

Claiming back £1 for a donation is tragic. An absolute disgrace of a man.

What fool stamped that saying it was ok aswell......

mathie

But Sterling is way down against the Euro since then so he'll only get about a euro and ten cents and it probably cost him 1.12 or 1.13 so the joke is on him!

Mr. Presentable

The headline and the OP are both misleading, bordering on lies. The CC did not claimback any money - he simply didn't pay it himself. Not the same thing.
Not a fan of the CC by the way, but not a fan of scurrilous reporting either.

Ghost Train

This is part of a hotel bill and seems a bit stupid for the independant to make so much of it

Yes its crap of him to claim it, but against the other expense or even the drink tabs on the bill it seems like bad reporting to make a headline out of it

Kradock

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

AS it says in the title. This disgrace of a man actualy claimed back a £1 donation that he made during a visit to scotland. This is the man who will be entitled to a severance package of €90,00 over the next to years while even though he is resigning he's waiting till tuesday to do so, so that he gets automaticaly re-elected if the greens call for a general election. Its people like this that have got this country in the mess its in.

The full story is here. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ceann-comhairle-reclaimed-pound1-donation-to-charity-1905969.html

Would you blame him if he has to survive on €90.00 for the next few years

Juwwi

yom 1 wrote: »

Claiming back £1 for a donation is tragic. An absolute disgrace of a man.

What fool stamped that saying it was ok aswell......

+1

Victor_M

nipplenuts wrote: »

The headline and the OP are both misleading, bordering on lies. The CC did not claim back any money - he simply didn't pay it himself. Not the same thing.
Not a fan of the CC by the way, but not a fan of scurrilous reporting either.

I agree, and with all of the other massive inappropriate expenses he has stolen from the taxpayer I mean claimed back legitimately in compliance with the dept of finance guidelines this is a stupid one that will only lead to people feeling sorry for him due to the misleading reporting.
Who would have thought that the Indo was a trashy newspaper though, with poorly researched, sensationalist reporting?

holly1

Will John O'Donoghue get a golden handshake when he goes, along with pensions and all the other add on's these Ministers get??

Bill-e

2 words... Firing Squad.

stevoman

holly1 wrote: »

Will John O'Donoghue get a golden handshake when he goes, along with pensions and all the other add on's these Ministers get??

Because he was CC he will essentially get a golden ****.

No shortage of pay offs im afraid, but should we expect anything else from our friends in the dail.

Biggins

holly1 wrote: »

Will John O'Donoghue get a golden handshake when he goes, along with pensions and all the other add on's these Ministers get??

O' yea - BIG time.

Mr O'Donoghue is expected to receive a severance package of up to €90,000 over the next two years. It would compensate him for dropping from a salary of €225,000, as Ceann Comhairle, to €100,000, as a TD...

This is on top of his pensions (1 for every 4 years served) as an ordinary TD, then the ones for Ceann Comhairle and any other office he was involved in.
Put it this way: He need NEVER worry about a paying an average bill in his life time.

O' and if (as he will) still stays on an an ordinary TD backbencher, he still gets €106,000 a year as well WITH NORMAL TD EXPENSES - still!

chave

he's scum , sub human scum!!!

Jay P

Victor_M wrote: »

I agree, and with all of the other massive inappropriate expenses he has stolen from the taxpayer I mean claimed back legitimately in compliance with the dept of finance guidelines this is a stupid one that will only lead to people feeling sorry for him due to the misleading reporting.
Who would have thought that the Indo was a trashy newspaper though, with poorly researched, sensationalist reporting?

You're taking the p1ss, right? Who in their right mind would feel sorry for this guy just because the Indo (easily, imo, the crappest newspaper available) decided to make a headline out of part of the truth? The guy who is already up sh1t creek, with hundreds of thousands of wrongly claimed expenses. There must be sarcasm in there somewhere....

CCCP^

Bill-e wrote: »

2 words... Firing Squad.

Good. But firing him out of a Cannon?

Better.

holly1

Well they should take the money he squandered back first:mad:.
The whole set up in that dam dail makes me want to murder someone:mad:

genericguy

it's absolutely hilarious to me that nobody blew the whistle on him for so long.

i hate him, but to be honest to have gotten away with that for so long he's an absolute champion.

Lux23

Is John O'Donoghue the same fella who's wife wrote a book about him being a terrible and cheap drunk. She had to wait till he passed out so she could sneak money out of his pockets to buy food, shoes etc for the kids. Or am I thinking of someone else?

Biggins

genericguy wrote: »

it's absolutely hilarious to me that nobody blew the whistle on him for so long.

i hate him, but to be honest to have gotten away with that for so long he's an absolute champion.

O' aye. I'd say like tax avoiding (now criminal) Lester Piggott - JOD is another pure racing champion!

Long Onion

Lux23 wrote: »

Is John O'Donoghue the same fella who's wife wrote a book about him being a terrible and cheap drunk. She had to wait till he passed out so she could sneak money out of his pockets to buy food, shoes etc for the kids. Or am I thinking of someone else?

I think you're confusing him with David Hasslehoff

Victor_M

Jay P wrote: »

You're taking the p1ss, right? Who in their right mind would feel sorry for this guy just because the Indo (easily, imo, the crappest newspaper available) decided to make a headline out of part of the truth? The guy who is already up sh1t creek, with hundreds of thousands of wrongly claimed expenses. There must be sarcasm in there somewhere....

You seemed to have missed the point I'm trying to make! The Guy is a scumbag who has lived a life of luxury at our expense, he has siphoned hundreds of thousands of euro out of our hard-earned taxes, yet the Indo pick an out of context example where the value at stake is £1

The sense of entitlement that the current members of the FF government have is disgusting. How can the public sector be expected to take any cuts heading their way lying down with this shower of thieving gangsters making the decisions.
Will Michael O'Leary please step in and run the place for 6 months.

I'm reeling at the thoughts of this over-fed spolit greedy gangster stepping out of a 225K pa job into a 106K pa as his punishment!

Lux23

Long Onion wrote: »

I think you're confusing him with David Hasslehoff

No there was a book written about five years ago about some politician and I was nearly sure it was him, this is annoying me now.

Biggins

Victor_M wrote: »

I'm reeling at the thoughts of this over-fed spolit greedy gangster stepping out of a 225K pa job into a 106K pa as his punishment!

Aye - while a british ordinary MP yesterday got a 12 week suspended sentence for just wasting £150 on three meals!

Some difference - its fckuing disgusting to compare the two and see how we here treat such scumbags by still rewarding them!

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Puddleduck

*insert pointless bitchy rant here*

Sure hell get away with it, so why not. The apathetic Irish strike again.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

nipplenuts wrote: »

The headline and the OP are both misleading, bordering on lies. The CC did not claimback any money - he simply didn't pay it himself. Not the same thing.
Not a fan of the CC by the way, but not a fan of scurrilous reporting either.

Well it still doesn't stop the witch hunt People don't care if it's true or not. See below.

Bill-e wrote: »

2 words... Firing Squad.

Jay P

Victor_M wrote: »

You seemed to have missed the point I'm trying to make! The Guy is a scumbag who has lived a life of luxury at our expense, he has siphoned hundreds of thousands of euro out of our hard-earned taxes, yet the Indo pick an out of context example where the value at stake is £1

The sense of entitlement that the current members of the FF government have is disgusting. How can the public sector be expected to take any cuts heading their way lying down with this shower of thieving gangsters making the decisions.
Will Michael O'Leary please step in and run the place for 6 months.

I'm reeling at the thoughts of this over-fed spolit greedy gangster stepping out of a 225K pa job into a 106K pa as his punishment!

No, I do understand, I just think it's going a bit far to say that people willfeel sorry for him.

will1977

The reason he will get away with it is because it is rife in Dail Eireann, they are all at it. He will be the first of many more to be caught out.
I found it interesting to see 1. how quite FF are about the whole thing, are they afraid some of them will be caught out themselves if they open their mouths ?? Dear old Enda missed the boat aswell and only jumped on the bandwagon after Eamonn Gilmore called for him to resign.

happyfriday

The way things are run in this country nothing our so called 'Leaders' do could suprise me. He steps down for basically fleecing us out of thousands and he is still going to get a huge pay off and everyone is going to just stand by and let it happen. We are all being made to look like fools because of a shower of gangsters!!!