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Galway is too affluent for Secret millionaire...

  • 17-09-2012 9:01pm
    #1
    Site Banned Posts: 4,066 ✭✭✭


    Your one cries at the drop of a hat but its doing nothng for me tonight...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Your one cries at the drop of a hat but its doing nothng for me tonight...
    call me a cynic.

    i suppose on the positive it gives a glance of the good work some people are doing out there.

    but 50k? (or 25K this week.)

    i dunno.


    shouldn't this be called the thousandaire?


    (i kinda wish she didn't mention her business name while producing the 2nd cheque)


  • Site Banned Posts: 4,066 ✭✭✭Silvio.Dante


    I doubt she's a millionaire myself. I've never heard of Cara Pharamcies and presume its a regional business...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    All the cheques came from the accounts dept of her pharmacy, so she can claim it with her tax returns. But all the charities were delighted with the donations, however its derived from. Did think she cried a bit too much, but I would say she is a very genuine woman. Good on her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭bobmalooka


    All the cheques came from the accounts dept of her pharmacy, so she can claim it with her tax returns. But all the charities were delighted with the donations, however its derived from. Did think she cried a bit too much, but I would say she is a very genuine woman. Good on her.
    Used to work beside one of her shops in the north west, saw her fire a girl on the spot for not wearing a name badge, genuine my arse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    bobmalooka wrote: »
    Used to work beside one of her shops in the north west, saw her fire a girl on the spot for not wearing a name badge, genuine my arse.

    Ouch, thats a bit severe alright!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    If only it was possible for rich people to in some way, somehow give money to good causes without having to showcase their rich existence and pretend to be sincere all over our telly screens - Its an awful shame :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭mac36


    Based on a friends experience I have to agree with Bobmalooka... seems that they are more than difficult to work for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭Not The Real Scarecrow


    15,000 to a middle class parents group...5,000 to a shelter for battered women!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Meatwad wrote: »
    15,000 to a middle class parents group...5,000 to a shelter for battered women!
    To be fair, it was an autism support group not a middle class parents group as you put it.

    However, I agree that it would have been much fairer to give €10,000 to the autism group and €10,000 to the women's shelter. I thought the cheque for €5,000 was very poor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    bobmalooka wrote: »
    Used to work beside one of her shops in the north west, saw her fire a girl on the spot for not wearing a name badge, genuine my arse.
    I have no idea if that story is accurate or not but perhaps she has changed. People often do, especially when they have had children.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    I had to laugh when i was watching it last night, ok I know its a barebones house she is staying in (cynic in me would say that was for the cameras before she went back to the hotel) but surely she could have done better than beans on toast for her dinner and later we see her eating ......... more toast :D

    Even my poorly domesticated self could have mustered a better evening meal that that :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭A Disgrace


    Last weeks episode was genuinely moving (surprisingly there was no thread here) but this weeks one sorta left me cold - there was no connection with any of the causes and I thought she really struggled with empathy towards them - maybe, as the OP said, it was the wrong place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Carson10


    1st off fair play to her giving away money that she earned, but the Irish version of this show is a laugh compared to the UK one. Anyone could do the Irish one and make out they are a millionaire.

    The funny thing is that any of the charity places she went to in Galway were far from run down or dumps. The first house with the autism mothers was a new house with a new jeep parked outside the front door? no poverty there. The other house with the guy doing the charity running club was far from poor either with his new fitted kitchen and Belfast sink.

    Cara Pharmacy is pretty big here in the north-west. Every small and big town has one. Although, dont think id like to work for her. Friendly but id say she'd cut you in two if she had a good reason.

    Iam nearly sure i know her house in Bundoran. Its massive, the most luxurious biggest house in the town with some top of the range Audis outside it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Wow! €20,000 - Is that all she donated?

    Pharmacies in this Country are regularly criticised for their massive mark-ups, I'd say she hardly made a dent in the mornings takings from one or two of their 12 pharmacies!!!

    I had never heard of Cara Pharmacies before this programme, what an unbelievable amount of media exposure for what is just a pittance to these people - €20,000 for 51 minutes of advertising time on RTE, genius move :rolleyes:

    - In fairness, this money could have been given anonymously or quietly, just making a charitable donation for sincere reasons.......

    P.S. Is this written off against tax anyhow I wonder? Was it a free 50 minute add on RTE? - Free for everyone except the TV license payer who was expected to somehow sit through poor little rich girls big day out under the misleading and horribly disappointing guise of 'entertainment'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    Is there a cap on the amount of money they can doate, it always seems to be 40-50 thousand euro. As mentioned the guy last week who was in Finglas was very good, he was going to get a field for the youth project team for allotments. I'd say he will be keeping in touch with them and helping out for the long run.

    What I did feel on Monday night was that she didn't really look very hard to find charities in Galway. It was as if the first few she found on notice boards she followed, a bit of homework on her behalf wouldn't have gone astray.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Im sure the charities were very grateful or the donations they received - some of the posts on this thread are bizarre - so what, she's rich - at least she highlighted charities and what people are doing. But hey, she's a biatch - let's just give her back the 5,000 that she gave to Waterside, and to hell with the battered women :rolleyes::roll eyes:

    I am wondering if the likes of Pat Kenny, Gay Byrne, or our rich Taoiseach or Taniste is featured in one of the programs - I wonder would they be so willing to part with 40,000 or 50,000 Euro from the hundreds of thousands they earn every year. I doubt it - they don't give a second thought to what is going on - they're more in the business of getting richer.

    Fair play to that girl - I don't care how the programme came across - she was generous to do what she did - shows she had a conscience. she help out people who needed a boost.

    The fact that the main aim on here is to criticize her, speaks volumes.


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