So you've got $500 million to leave in your will.

Chuck Stone

Let's just say you've looked after friends and family and you're now trying to think of a noble cause.

So who or what do you leave the monies to?

El Guapo!

Probably Cancer Research and Childrens charities.

Temptamperu

My cat Mr Chesterton.

Phill Ewinn

Free lap dances for everyone!

later12

I'd help Alison O'Riordan escape from her prison of negative equity.

God knows she needs it more than anyone, poor dote.

senorwipesalot

Sean Quim could do with a few bob now.

D1stant

To FF to help rebuild the party and get us out of this mess

Mint Sauce

Irish Cancer Society.

Jesus Wept

I'd chuck Chuck Stone a few mill.

I'd probably organise for the money to go to one person I know and send an e-mail to a friend stating how they have won $500 million in a lottery of that money. I'm sure they'll sign up to it, once they've paid the small legal fees of my Nigerian solicitor up front.

CamperMan

I would have it cremated with me!

Standard Toaster

Comming with me in my urn as I'm shot out of a cannon.

Cavehill Red

I'd leave it to Cliftonville FC, and watch from Heaven as they win the Champions League. (They do have Sky Sports in the actual sky, don't they?)

Chuck Stone

I think I'd leave half of it to those charities that grant a wish to gravely ill and terminally ill kids. Make a Wish Foundation for example.

The other half I'd leave to whistle blowers support organisations. Whistle blowers do so much for us at great expense to themselves.

Mint Sauce

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I'd leave it to Cliftonville FC, and watch from Heaven as they win the Champions League. (They do have Sky Sports in the actual sky, don't they?)

Might take more than that.

Duckworth_Luas

I'd leave it to my American nephew. He's a minor league baseball player who can't keep his nose out of trouble.

However, I'd first leave him $50 million, all of which he has to spend in 50 days. If he does so, without telling anyone why he's doing it, he'll get the rest.

He'll also have to do it with a jolly fat guy, all the time wondering what happened to his alternative comedy career.

Cavehill Red

irish-stew wrote: »

Might take more than that.

Depends whether they could lure Messi to the bright lights of North Belfast or not. Otherwise, I'd accept a run to the final against Barca.

Mint Sauce

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I'd leave it to my American nephew. He's a minor league baseball player who can't keep his nose out of trouble.

However, I'd first leave him $50 million, all of which he has to spend in 50 days. If he does so, without telling anyone why he's doing it, he'll get the rest.

He'll also have to do it with a jolly fat guy, all the time wondering what happened to his alternative comedy career.

Been awhile since I seen that movie.

goose2005

Build a statue of myself, holding a smaller statue of myself in my hand.

Kevin Duffy

If I get my hands on that much, I am not wasting it by leaving it behind. The cheque for my funeral will bounce and I will leave a ragged, burned out, smiling corpse.

bleg

I'd set up a trust to invest the money to bring about the technological Singularity ASAP.

Chuck Stone

I would keep aside a coupla million to have my corpse escorted around a roller coaster tour of the US of A.

Duggy747

I'd invest the money in pumpkins

Kevin Duffy

Duggy747 wrote: »

I'd invest the money in pumpkins

Smashing idea.

SeaFields

CamperMan wrote: »

I would have it cremated with me!

I'll hang on to it for you and write you a cheque. Simples.

_AVALANCHE_

Dean09 wrote: »

Probably Cancer Research and Childrens charities.

Charities you say?

They'll mind it for ya alright.

ygolometsipe

I dont know if there is a charity based equity fund but id give them the money - its the best bang for buck and it would be nice to see a cut throat capitalist company fighiting for the poor. Most charitys just distribute the money they collect after expenses, whats needed long term is an endowment!

gurramok

Honest answer, i'd give most of away. Who needs $500m anyway? A half a mill would do fine.
(shed a tear now), I'd give it to anyone who has been nice to me in life and also anyone who thanked my posts :pac:

ygolometsipe

gurramok wrote: »

Honest answer, i'd give most of away. Who needs $500m anyway? A half a mill would do fine.
(shed a tear now), I'd give it to anyone who has been nice to me in life and also anyone who thanked my posts :pac:

I read that wrong, dam, I thought I was the first click millionaire, was working on the second draft cnn speech too poor reading sucks!:o

DEFTLEFTHAND

Have no noble cause to give to. I would leave it all to my first child, my heir will inherit my fortune and continue the family business, what they see fit to do with the extra money is their own call.

Ken.

I'd leave it to the missus, my daughter and animal charities.






missus is on boards btw.

Doc Ruby

EFF, FFII, ICCL, and other civil liberties lobbying organisations. Twould give me tremendous entertainment in the great beyond to see the copyright moguls, middlemen and media lawyers looking down the barrels of bigger guns than they have.

Red21

I'd have a small plane fly over the poorest parts of Africa dropping wadds of cash on the people, so when i'm gone they would name roundabouts Red21 and my picture would be up in every school. Red21 would be known forever as the guy who saved Africa, that would be nice.

Kylo Ren

Red21 wrote: »

I'd have a small plane fly over the poorest parts of Africa dropping wadds of cash on the people, so when i'm gone they would name roundabouts Red21 and my picture would be up in every school. Red21 would be known forever as the guy who saved Africa, that would be nice.

I'd do the same. Except I'd drop the money in its coin form. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Tarkus

I wouldn't trust that big of a decision to just me so I'd go to the bar, buy rounds for my best mates & throw out ideas till I found the best one...

Or until the money ran out...

Pride Fighter

Keno 92 wrote: »

I'd do the same. Except I'd drop the money in its coin form. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Go unicef pennies, save the puny children.

randylonghorn

AH answer: If I had that much, I'd do a Monty Burns and refuse to die!! :pac:


Seriously, though, a trust sounds like a good idea, rather than just distributing chunks of cash to charities there and then ... in most cases long-term investment and a reasonable level of consistent funding is more use than a sudden windfall which won't be repeated.

Barretstown would definitely be one beneficiary, I like organisations like Make A Wish as well (and indeed a few bob to our own SSF); a few other decent Irish organisations I know who are pretty strapped at the moment. There would be a few bob set aside as well for scholarships for really bright kids who, even with the grants system as it is, would struggle to put themselves through college ... or perhaps would manage their primary degree, but would not be able to go on to postgraduate / doctoral levels despite being more than able for it. My mother was one of the latter group, and while she was grateful for the supports she received at a time when there were few enough out there, and certainly would never have dreamed of complaining, it was a crying shame to see her brain being essentially wasted. I think she would approve of a few scholarships in her name.

Some would go to organisations which work at grass-roots level in education and local development in under-developed countries. After all, "give a man a fish and you feed him to-day; teach him to fish and he eats all year!" I'm lucky enough through my own work to know a few people working or involved in a voluntary capacity in such organisations, so would be able to target ones who genuinely seek to keep admin costs low and to work in partnership with local communities, rather than in an ethnocentric "we know everything; shut up and listen!" fashion.

(By the way, a lot of you are forgetting that the OP stipulated that "you've looked after friends and family" already. )

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James T Kirk

After a long and anguished night of deep thinking, and the stroking of my 'beard of wisdom', I'd probably just give it to the first person I met the next day. For the lulz. :pac:

sparrowcar

€100m Mrs Sparrowcar
€100m Family and friends
€100m Scouting Ireland
€50m ISPCC
€50m ISPCA

The final €100m I would ask Mrs S to go around after I die giving it to genuine people who deserve a bit of help due sickness, circumstances etc. A bit like the secret millionaire.

monkey 456

The childrens medical and reserarch foundation

oldyouth

Bulk of it to cancer, childrens, homeless & elderly charities. However, I'd love to leave behind a kind of Secret Millionaire fund where trustees would quietly go about making individual donations which make the lives of people that little bit better

It might be to pay for the education of a deserving person who can't afford it, installing heating in to the house of an elderly person, paying for an operation, building a youth centre etc.

Having said all that, I'd like to think I would be doing all that stuff while I was alive, so my wealth should never have got that high in the first place

coco_lola

Animal Welfare societies. Too many animals being abandoned due to the recession and shelters can't keep up with medical and feeding/upkeep costs.

Mully_2011

If had 500 million in a will I'd marry a gold digging supermodel leave it all to her and then go back in the next day and change the will leaving all the money to the poor

Icaras

The church!

oldyouth

Icaras wrote: »

The church!

Nice one! That way they could finally pay what they owe to the victims of clerical abuse.

BunShopVoyeur

If I had no kids I'd probably give it to Cuba for a laugh.




Piss off the yanks on my way out.

MungBean

Massive statue of myself in the centre of town with some bullshít about how great I was.

That or a movie of my life in 3D.

Deki

I think I'd have to leave at least part of it to St. Jude's Childrens Hospital because they never turn any children away. I think some would have to be set up in trusts, some scholarships, helping hand to those in need. I wouldn't be giving to charities that pay out 90% of funds to administration and give 10% to actual helping anyone.

Carstuck

I'll bail out the banks and the country if they would leave me in charge of the country.














No actually, I'd spend some on me, family and charities

Snowie

500 million would make a brilliant 3rd level education,

designed for people with learning liabilities but not only that to give the finger to true academia

But also one that changes quicker then 5 years takes all the bS out of learning and provide strong well designed course with out the fvcking bull **** that people have to put up with just to get a fvcking degree...

Thats doesn't mean they wouldn't be tough but they sure as hell would learn you...

Millicent

senorwipesalot wrote: »

Sean Quim could do with a few bob now.

Was that intentional? :pac: