Hidden Millionaire Galway episode

Fuinseog

Did anyone see Hidden Millionaire programme set in Galway last night?

if you were living on welfare would you be able to afford to rent an entire house in Galway?
would you dine on beans on toast as the Donegal wan did last night?

is having a can of beer down by the Spanish Arch a sign of alcohol abuse and destitution?


if the programme is to be believed there is destitution on every corner of Galway.

Seaneh

Shows like that, especially when made by ****ty Irish production companies, tend to absolutely sensationalise everything, 99% of TV3's original content is proof of that, RTE are just as bad in a lot of ways.

ArtyC

Haha I was thinking that about the big house she got, in town- on her welfare money!! She stayed in The box room of it as well by the looks of it. I laughed at the beans on toast Craic as well!!

van_beano

What I don't get is......

All the people that she was interviewing, did these people not wonder:
a) Who was she?
b) Why she interviewing me?
and
c) Why was there was a film crew following her?

She cried too much........especially when the reformed alcoholic told her his life story. He seemed pretty embarrassed for her at the end......

I didn't see the end of it though so I don't know who she gave money to so I can't comment any further than that, at least I know part of my TV license paid for her accommodation for the 8 days, money well spent!

Shakti

Self promotion by way of shameless exploitation, maybe a mate of fidelmas' perhaps.

Toto Wolfcastle

van_beano wrote: »

What I don't get is......

All the people that she was interviewing, did these people not wonder:
a) Who was she?
b) Why she interviewing me?
and
c) Why was there was a film crew following her?

She told them that she was filming a documentary.

Fuinseog

van_beano wrote: »

What I don't get is......

All the people that she was interviewing, did these people not wonder:
a) Who was she?
b) Why she interviewing me?
and
c) Why was there was a film crew following her?

She cried too much........especially when the reformed alcoholic told her his life story. He seemed pretty embarrassed for her at the end......

I didn't see the end of it though so I don't know who she gave money to so I can't comment any further than that, at least I know part of my TV license paid for her accommodation for the 8 days, money well spent!

supposedly she was making a programme on life in modern Ireland.
she cried enough tears to drive a mill wheel.
a fine bird though.
i wouldnt mess with the wan from the womens shelter.

van_beano

Fuinseog wrote: »

supposedly she was making a programme on life in modern Ireland.

Ahh very good, I failed to mention I didn't see the start of it either......now I just sound like an eejit :eek:

Fuinseog

van_beano wrote: »

Ahh very good, I failed to mention I didn't see the start of it either......now I just sound like an eejit :eek:

probably on the player.

BTW is that what your average rented house looks like in Galway or was it a student gaff?

Krieg

Anywhere this can be viewed online or repeat of the episode?

Shakti

It's actually called 'the secret millionaire' nauseating stuff
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10053217

swiftman

Fuinseog wrote: »

probably on the player.

BTW is that what your average rented house looks like in Galway or was it a student gaff?

this house https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=galway&aq=f&ie=UTF-8&hl=en

inisboffin

I wouldn't blame the Donegal woman for 'crying too much' etc. What we see on these types of show is the edited versions (for maximum emotional impact). And who knows what kind of personal connections it triggered. 'People' want the emotional moments on these type of shows.

Plenty have had beans on toast for the dinner!

I'd say the gaff is pretty standard for an old house near City Centre
rental, probably would be cleaned a bit better though.

People are great at closing their eyes to stuff. I'm glad a few charities got some press, even if it was standard mass-view telly.

irishlady29

Watched it myself and have mixed emotions about it (but I wont cry)!

I thought Galway looked great with the volvo ocean race & the crowds. I just don't get it, whats in it for her?? If she really wanted to "make a difference", why so public???
Throw a few cheques in the post......She has to be benefiting from it somehow?

van_beano

irishlady29 wrote: »

......She has to be benefiting from it somehow?

Didn't she get Social Welfare for the 8 days without having to go through all the trouble of applying for it, Signing on etc

irishlady29

van_beano wrote: »

Didn't she get Social Welfare for the 8 days without having to go through all the trouble of applying for it, Signing on etc

Actually yeah, and I did'nt see her standing in the queue for it either, and, did you see all the "expensive" cleaning stuff she bought, not an aldi label in sight!!:eek:

van_beano

Does her particular business sell cleaning products?

irishlady29

van_beano wrote: »

Does her particular business sell cleaning products?

I'm not sure, I would'nt have thought so.

van_beano

Maybe her wholesaler does.....There should be a spin-off Behind-the-Scenes episode aswell, just to clear up a few questions.

How much did she give away in the end anyways?

swiftman

€40,000 if im not mistaken. (15k,5k,10,10)

van_beano

For a millionaire that's not that much, wouldn't ya think she would have at least broken the €100k mark!

If ya think about it aswell she got free advertising for her particular business so that's €40k well spent

swiftman

what was the company then? i failed to hear the name? is it a small one or multinational

van_beano

Small one, few based around Ireland, can't be mentioning it on here as that'd be advertising and €40k well spent :cool:

inisboffin

Lads! It's a telly show. All is not what it seems! It is meant to make cheap telly that will tug at the heartstrings. I'd warrant that she had to live on the *dole equivalent* for that week, probably from the production budget. She got to promo her company a bit, feel good about it, and probably write off some of it to charitable donation. She may have gotten an appearance fee at the end or may have waived it.

They are great at recruiting people for shows like this, people have all sorts of reasons for saying yes, from wanting to be on telly, to trying something new, to wanting to donate in a different way. At very least everyone knows that a charity will get some PR

It's *telly*! At the end of the day whatever she donated is more than the charities had to begin with, and didn't they get some publicity out of it?

van_beano

I'm merely being cynical, it's me Irish genes.

theotherone

What are the tax implications for her and her business giving money to charity does anyone know ? Good to see the good work done by people highlighted.

mikom

theotherone wrote: »

What are the tax implications for her and her business giving money to charity does anyone know ? Good to see the good work done by people highlighted.

This...

Corporate donations
Company X donates £1,000 to an eligible charity or approved body. Assuming a corporation tax rate of 12.5%,
relief to the company is £125, i.e. £1,000@12.5%. While the eligible charity or approved body has the benefit
of £1,000, the cost to the company of making the donation is only £875 (£1,000 - £125). The company will
simply claim a deduction for the donation as if it were a trading expense, there is no grossing up arrangement
and therefore no repayment claim by the eligible charity or approved body arises.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/chy2.pdf

Mrs OBumble

And if a donation was made by her as a self-employed person, rather than the company, and she's paying at 41%, then a donation of €10k will see €4100 headed back to her.

kinetic

Just speed watched it on the rte player. Thought it was a self indulgent crock of s..t.

beeintheknow

JustMary wrote: »

And if a donation was made by her as a self-employed person, rather than the company, and she's paying at 41%, then a donation of €10k will see €4100 headed back to her.

They were company cheques.

Too easy to be cynical about this type of thing. Fair play to her for giving to charities.

fishy fishy

beeintheknow wrote: »

They were company cheques.

Too easy to be cynical about this type of thing. Fair play to her for giving to charities.

I;m sure the people at Waterside, Cluinmhuire, Autism, etc where extremely happy to get a donation. Fair play to her for doing it - at the end of the day she didn't have to give away thousands. Maybe next time, they might hit up the likes of our pat kennys, or taoiseach to do a programme and donate some of their monies - I doubt it tho. They biatch about taking cuts to their hundreds of thousands as it is - they don't want to think of the little people.

Very generous of that lady. Who cares if the programme wasn't up to some people's standards - the fact is she helped out a lot of good causes in Galway. She didn't have to.

galgar

A lot of cynical people commenting here and b*tching about this programme.
It was okay tv, highlighted a lot of charities that many people don't even know about. So what if she cried a lot, and so what if she gets tax back for her donations. At least she was sitting on her ar*e sniping on boards.ie about other peoples attempts to help others.
F the begrudgers.

dendof

Watch the episode with Tuam's John Concannon in it. He's since gone on to make a Pieta House in Tuam happen.
That is making a huge difference to society from one progam if you ask me.
OK, people can say it's edited a certain way with emotional scenes, of course it will be - it is TV after all.
But they are highlighting areas around the country where real issues are happening.
If tugging at the heartstrings gets things done then well so be it.
And even if they are using company cheques, claiming back VAT, not giving away a more substantial amount becaues they are 'millionaires' etc, they are still donating.

beeintheknow

dendof wrote: »

Watch the episode with Tuam's John Concannon in it. He's since gone on to make a Pieta House in Tuam happen.
That is making a huge difference to society from one progam if you ask me.
OK, people can say it's edited a certain way with emotional scenes, of course it will be - it is TV after all.
But they are highlighting areas around the country where real issues are happening.
If tugging at the heartstrings gets things done then well so be it.
And even if they are using company cheques, claiming back VAT, not giving away a more substantial amount becaues they are 'millionaires' etc, they are still donating.

JFC is a top man.

True altruism does not exist anyway. If someone is giving to charity, fair play. If they can generate some publicity for their business from that, then fair play too. If they go on to donate some of the proceeds that publicity generates to charity, then the fairest of play to them.

kautostar

This lady who set up her own business decides to leave her family, go to Galway and give out her own self-made hard earned cash €40,000 according to a previous poster and you have cynical people on here giving out about it, I actually can't understand it!

There are no negatives any normal person could take from watching this programme in my opinion. You are watching Television, of course it's sensationalistic or whatever and if she's an emotional person that's no reason to detract from the good she was trying to and did do.

Fair play to her

theotherone

As unthinkable as it is to have a discussion on an internet forum the argument that the cynical people can go F themselves is laughable. All Charity is good right. Look at the great job it has made of Africa. Where would they be today with out the great work of Charity. And look at the great job charity is doing offloading responsibily from our Goverment and the HSE to essential service's for the citizens of this Country. THis allows for a reduction in services while the expectation is lowered sure they are doing great its a charity people giving their time for a worthy cause while running on a limited budget. Everyone is collecting for some charity, when are we going to wise up and start asking some questions.

Not having a go at anyone and fair play to folks for the effort, but its good to talk.

roytheboyo

40k is a pitiful amount to give away given that she can get 41% back. Self promotion.

philboy

galgar wrote: »

A lot of cynical people commenting here and b*tching about this programme.
It was okay tv, highlighted a lot of charities that many people don't even know about. So what if she cried a lot, and so what if she gets tax back for her donations. At least she was sitting on her ar*e sniping on boards.ie about other peoples attempts to help others.
F the begrudgers.

Totally agree with your comment. It's sickening the amount of negativity & begrudgery. There's enough negativity in the country atm, I don't think we need people looking for alterior motives to someone giving away their cash to well deserved charities.

mikom

philboy wrote: »

I don't think we need people looking for alterior motives

I don't think it is possible to find alterior motives.

Ficheall

mikom wrote: »

I don't think it is possible to find alterior motives.

I reckon the word will be included in the dictionary within five years.

Fuinseog

the Donegal 'millionaire' appeared genuine and I do not believe she was doing it to blow her own trumpet. I just found it funny the way she perceived that living off welfare means beans on toast.

inisboffin

Fuinseog wrote: »

the Donegal 'millionaire' appeared genuine and I do not believe she was doing it to blow her own trumpet. I just found it funny the way she perceived that living off welfare means beans on toast.

I'm sure that was a producer's idea. "Oh you can't be having meat every night on the dole - what do people eat? Oh yeah, beans on toast"

Probably more nutrients in it than a crappy frozen burger anyway!

beeintheknow

inisboffin wrote: »

I'm sure that was a producer's idea. "Oh you can't be having meat every night on the dole - what do people eat? Oh yeah, beans on toast"

Probably more nutrients in it than a crappy frozen burger anyway!

She didn't spare the butter if I recall correctly. #minted

inisboffin

beeintheknow wrote: »

She didn't spare the butter if I recall correctly. #minted

Poor people typically eat more fats!:p

beeintheknow

inisboffin wrote: »

Poor people typically eat more fats!:p

Is that why you're so fat then?

gassdfres

galgar wrote: »

A lot of cynical people commenting here and b*tching about this programme.
It was okay tv, highlighted a lot of charities that many people don't even know about. So what if she cried a lot, and so what if she gets tax back for her donations. At least she was sitting on her ar*e sniping on boards.ie about other peoples attempts to help others.
F the begrudgers.

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joeKel73

Our secret millionaire is to become the newest "dragon" in the den;

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2012/12/02/donegal-woman-to-become-rtes-latest-dragon/