GOAL rejects Clonmel coursing donation

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THE CHARITY Goal has lost a donation towards its efforts for victims of the Haiti earthquake because animal rights campaigners objected to the source of the funding.

So the perceived suffering of Hares is more important than the real suffering of people, WTF !

super_furry

Self-righteous idiots.

ziedth

I have had dealings with goal directly through work and this doesnt surprise me in the slightest tbh. I had a nightmare with them!

walshb

Money well saved, then. GOAL never miss a chance to cash in, suprised they didn't take it. Ah well, there's more chances for them elsewhere.
Lisa didn't want to decline the money but, money before morals, that's the best way isn't it? At least the money went to an Irish charity
in the end.

Xluna

The grey hounds should be made to chase a diploma instead.:pac:

Mike 1972

Perhaps GOAL didnt want to be PR agents for a controversial and ethically dubious activity as hare coursing ("we do a lot of work for Chariteee you know") ?

walshb

super_furry wrote: »

Self-righteous idiots.

Who, GOAL? Lisa still was going to take the money, so not all that self righteous

Morlar

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Perhaps GOAL didnt want to be PR agents for a controversial and ethically dubious activity as hare coursing ("we do a lot of work for Chariteee you know") ?

I am sure that the people goal ultimately canvas on behalf of will fully understand that. As mentioned they are self righteous idiots.

Goal loses out over source of donation


THE CHARITY Goal has lost a donation towards its efforts for victims of the Haiti earthquake because animal rights campaigners objected to the source of the funding.

The money will instead be given to a greyhound welfare charity. Bookmaker Boylesports sponsored a series of charity bets at the national meeting of the Irish Coursing Club in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, earlier this week.

It was intended all the winnings would help “the unfortunate millions who have been left hopeless in Haiti after the recent earthquake”. Boylesports planned to give the money to Goal.

However, the Irish Council Against Blood Sports contacted Goal to “alert them” to the source of the donation. They described the event in Clonmel as a “crueltyfest” and said blood sports-related fundraisers were “thinly-disguised public relations exercises designed to try and gain brownie points for those involved in causing suffering and death to animals”.

An official at Goal subsequently contact Boylesports to say the charity did not wish to be associated with coursing and was told: “no problem”.

Spokeswoman for the council, Aideen Yourell said she had explained “what coursing was and the cruelty associated with it” and claimed Goal “didn’t take much persuading” to decline the offer.

But when contacted by The Irish Times yesterday, the charity’s head of fundraising Lisa O’Shea said that while Goal was not associated with this particular fund-raising initiative, the charity would, in fact, be happy to accept the donation because she didn’t see “why people in Haiti should suffer” just because some people objected to certain activities.

She said the Irish Council Against Blood Sports had promised “more calls” and she was “picturing a deluge of phone calls from irate members of the public”.

However, Boylesports confirmed they had decided instead to give the “significant” sum of money to another charity, the Retired Greyhound Trust, which provides for unwanted dogs.

DJ Histon, chief executive of the Irish Coursing Club, expressed disappointment and said Goal was dealing with “a desperate situation in Haiti”. He called on the Irish Council Against Blood Sports to replace the donation lost to Goal.

biko

Irish Council Against Blood Sports wants to ban coursing so of course they'll object to coursing for charity.

It was intended all the winnings would help “the unfortunate millions who have been left hopeless in Haiti after the recent earthquake”. Boylesports planned to give the money to Goal.

It'd be interesting to know how much this is exactly.

Rented Mule

super_furry wrote: »

Self-righteous idiots.

.......again proving that there are more horse's asses than horses in the world.

Mike 1972

Morlar wrote: »

An official at Goal subsequently contact Boylesports to say the charity did not wish to be associated with coursing and was told: “no problem”.

Spokeswoman for the council, Aideen Yourell said she had explained “what coursing was and the cruelty associated with it” and claimed Goal “didn’t take much persuading” to decline the offer.

But when contacted by The Irish Times yesterday, the charity’s head of fundraising Lisa O’Shea said that while Goal was not associated with this particular fund-raising initiative, the charity would, in fact, be happy to accept the donation because she didn’t see “why people in Haiti should suffer” just because some people objected to certain activities.

She said the Irish Council Against Blood Sports had promised “more calls” and she was “picturing a deluge of phone calls from irate members of the public”.

So what exactly is GOAL's policy
1) We do not accept money from bloodsports
2) We do accept money from bloodsports
3) We do accept money from bloodsports but only if it doesnt piss people off/cause us some minor hasstle
4) We make it up as we go along

As for Boylesports could they not have found another Charity in a related field willing to take their money rather than giving it to a totally unrelated one ? Surely the people who attended the event organised by Boylesports were doing so on the basis of it being for a charity event "for Hati" ?

Morlar

Mike 1972 wrote: »

So what exactly is GOAL's policy
1) We do not accept money from bloodsports
2) We do accept money from bloodsports
3) We do accept money from bloodsports but only if it doesnt piss people off/cause us some minor hasstle
4) We make it up as we go along

As for Boylesports could they not have found another Charity in a related field willing to take their money rather than giving it to a totally unrelated one ? Surely the people who attended the event organised by Boylesports were doing so on the basis of it being for a charity event "for Hati" ?

From reading the full article it's conflicting information.

I think their policy is now 'No one reject donations unless by managerial direction' whereas before this incident their policy on refusing donations was either poorly defined or not defined at all.

W.B. Yeats

I'm a bit surprised that Goal would turn their noses up at a donation regardless of it coming from a bookies.
I gave them a donation a few weeks back but will be slow to in the future after this fiasco.

rovert

walshb wrote: »

Money well saved, then. GOAL never miss a chance to cash in, suprised they didn't take it. Ah well, there's more chances for them elsewhere.
Lisa didn't want to decline the money but, money before morals, that's the best way isn't it? At least the money went to an Irish charity
in the end.

And not a Nigerian one AM I RITE

mikom

Own goal tbh.

walshb

mikom wrote: »

Own goal tbh.

Yeah, but they can always recoup it. Just send out ads asking for specific amounts for donations. Concern did it. Started out asking for donations, then after a while it was a specific amount they requested, 40 Euro. This should get GOAL back on track.