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Sports Council staff used official credit cards to pay personal bills

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  • #2
    woodchopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 806 ✭✭✭woodchopper


    Anyone caught eating fish and chips has not got whats best for Irish athletics at heart. Agenda, Agenda, Agenda I hear


  • #3
    Fish'n'Chips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭Fish'n'Chips


    woodchopper wrote: »
    Anyone caught eating fish and chips has not got whats best for Irish athletics at heart. Agenda, Agenda, Agenda I hear

    I don't think highlighting an article in a National paper exposing the head of Irish sport wasting good money on personal luxuries while athletes and athletics in general struggles as a result of lack of funding (amongst other things) suggests not having Irish athletics "at heart".


  • #4
    W.B. Yeats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    There is a more detailed article in the print version
    Statement from ISC jist of: that any personal charges were recouped
    To be honest I have very little faith in Indo to report anything fairly, objectively and impartially.
    When more reputable media sources run this story I'll pay more heed


  • #5
    ecoli
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    FishnChips wrote: »
    I don't think highlighting an article in a National paper exposing the head of Irish sport wasting good money on personal luxuries while athletes and athletics in general struggles as a result of lack of funding (amongst other things) suggests not having Irish athletics "at heart".

    I dont see ignoring every positive thing the happens in Irish athletics yet posting only criticisms of the politics as having Irish athletics at heart either. Yes there are negatives in the sport and people should be aware of the sport but by posting bias your hurting the sport more so that helping as per usual


  • #6
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,718 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    FishnChips wrote: »
    I don't think highlighting an article in a National paper exposing the head of Irish sport wasting good money on personal luxuries while athletes and athletics in general struggles as a result of lack of funding (amongst other things) suggests not having Irish athletics "at heart".

    Even the article itself doesn't say that. This is just lazy 'freedom of information' journalism. They get access to credit card bills then write a story full of innuendo and hints with nothing behind it. Meaningless drivel.


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  • #7
    TheRoadRunner
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    Some of the expenses seem excessive but if they were recouped then it isn't an issue. Also expenses without the relevant supporting documentation don't tell us much. I agree with it being lazy FOI journalism.


  • #8
    jeffontour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 930 ✭✭✭jeffontour


    I'm sure the indo think it's worth a go to list expenditure on staff nights out to stoke the fires of discontent in a recession. But I see nothing to worry about in that article.


  • #9
    Izoard
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    TheRoadRunner wrote: »
    Some of the expenses seem excessive but if they were recouped then it isn't an issue. Also expenses without the relevant supporting documentation don't tell us much. I agree with it being lazy FOI journalism.

    The excessive "non-personal" expenses are the real issue...

    "The records revealed that business-class flights for Mr Treacy and Mr Kilkenny to Beijing in 2008 cost over €3,900 each, while both men stayed in €490-a-night hotel rooms in the Chinese capital."

    How we ever got to a point where it is acceptable for any publicly-funded travel to be "business class" is beyond me.

    I regularly travel (IT/ private sector) on these sorts of trips, and can easily get to Beijing for €800 and hotel for max €200 per night...


  • #10
    copacetic
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    Izoard wrote: »

    I regularly travel (IT/ private sector) on these sorts of trips, and can easily get to Beijing for €800 and hotel for max €200 per night...

    Business class is excessive alright, but you wouldn't have got anywhere near the prices you are claiming during the olympics imo.


  • #11
    Izoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Izoard


    copacetic wrote: »
    Business class is excessive alright, but you wouldn't have got anywhere near the prices you are claiming during the olympics imo.

    Fair point on 2008, but €5,680 on JTs flights to the Special Olympics in '07?

    I've no issue with JT or the ISC in general, but this assumption of privilege around travel and accommodation funded by the taxpayer is a bad joke that runs throughout this country...


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