Are local GAA lottos above board ?

Cork_chick_94

The national lottery have Kpmg keeping an eye on things but does anybody check if local gaa lottos are above board ?

wazky

Mary who makes the sandwiches does be conducting the independent analysis.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Yes each club has to have a lottery licence to run draws.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Club trustees usually oversee the running of the lottos.

fleet_admiral

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yes each club has to have a lottery licence to run draws.

License yes but adjudication?

monflat

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Club trustees usually oversee the running of the lottos.

Our local GAA lotto seems to above board its a combined clubs lotto so it works well.


However our "parish " lottery is a different story one week 4 numbers came out it said no winners
However one woman bought a ticket and marked those numbers .

She approached the priest who is the head man involved he said to say nothing she would get her money but to tell no one.

Typical Catholic church attitude brush under carpet she told everyone parish lotto sales have taken a big dip !!!!

Honesty my eye !

Balmed Out

I have my doubts, do tourists ever win?

Sir Arthur Daley

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Club trustees usually oversee the running of the lottos.

Everything ok so, club trustees would never do any thing under handed.

fleet_admiral

monflat wrote: »

Our local GAA lotto seems to above board its a combined clubs lotto so it works well.


However our "parish " lottery is a different story one week 4 numbers came out it said no winners
However one woman bought a ticket and marked those numbers .

She approached the priest who is the head man involved he said to say nothing she would get her money but to tell no one.

Typical Catholic church attitude brush under carpet she told everyone parish lotto sales have taken a big dip !!!!

Honesty my eye !

same happened in a GAA club in the south dublin city area a few years ago. One of the regular players complained to a ticket seller that he never wins. he won that night

WesternZulu

All sports lotto's are run in the same manner, whether they're GAA, soccer, or rugby.
I'd imagine they are as corrupt, or uncorrupt, as one another.

But go on and single out the GAA especially :rolleyes:

ILikeBananas

WesternZulu wrote: »

All sports lotto's are run in the same manner, whether they're GAA, soccer, or rugby.
I'd imagine they are as corrupt, or uncorrupt, as one another.

But go on and single out the GAA especially :rolleyes:

No chip on your shoulder then...

Alf. A. Male

monflat wrote: »

Our local GAA lotto seems to above board its a combined clubs lotto so it works well.


However our "parish " lottery is a different story one week 4 numbers came out it said no winners
However one woman bought a ticket and marked those numbers .

She approached the priest who is the head man involved he said to say nothing she would get her money but to tell no one.

Typical Catholic church attitude brush under carpet she told everyone parish lotto sales have taken a big dip !!!!

Honesty my eye !

In fairness, it was number 11 and they just looked at it upside down.

Mr. Incognito

Anywhere and anything that has money involved has curroption.

Horses, lotto, charities, schools, casinos, pubs, taxis, banks, government contracts.

anything.

Lapin

monflat wrote: »

Our local GAA lotto seems to above board its a combined clubs lotto so it works well.


However our "parish " lottery is a different story one week 4 numbers came out it said no winners
However one woman bought a ticket and marked those numbers .

She approached the priest who is the head man involved he said to say nothing she would get her money but to tell no one.

Typical Catholic church attitude brush under carpet she told everyone parish lotto sales have taken a big dip !!!!

Honesty my eye !

I'm calling bullshít on this one.

biko

Yes, you can safely enter the raffle for that win a sheep competition.

WesternZulu

ILikeBananas wrote: »

No chip on your shoulder then...

Not at all, I am a fan of all sports.

PizzamanIRL

WesternZulu wrote: »

Not at all, I am a fan of all sports.

Even extreme ironing and toe wrestling?

WesternZulu

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Even extreme ironing and toe wrestling?

I admit I only follow the top players, both sports are very hard to watch unless they're played at the highest level.

PizzamanIRL

mikemac1 wrote: »

She scammed her local lotto and told everyone? Why would she want to hated by the parish? It's their money she took

Something right about this story

I thought she had bought a ticket with those numbers and those numbers came up but the priest said there was no winners.

anncoates

I won a few quid in one once(in a place I regularly visit) but they never contacted me even though they could have.. Only found out months later.

To be fair they're hardly going to send money out of The Parish to Dublin .

porsche959

anncoates wrote: »

I won a few quid in one once(in a place I regularly visit) but they never contacted me even though they could have.. Only found out months later.

To be fair they're hardly going to send money out of The Parish to Dublin .

It's a local lottery, for local people, of the local area.

anncoates

porsche959 wrote: »

It's a local lottery, for local people, of the local area.

Just because I don't chew corn stalks doesn't mean I can be swindled out of my prize money

Rasheed

All I can speak for is the one I'm involved in and that's kosher alright.

I don't know about the rest, sure it's the same as anything, a few dodgy hoors involved and the whole thing is fecked.

Guy:Incognito

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yes each club has to have a lottery licence to run draws.

Everyone driving a car has to have a licence, doesn't mean they do it properly every time.

Strumms

The one that the local GAA club used to run in my local always had a sniff of dodge over it especially towards the end... It was rarely won but when it was it was always won by very much one of the GAA glitterati.. You know the type.. A bit of a twat.. Always going on about the 'cummunity' always in the colours and basically blanking anyone who isn't into the GAA... Anyway the lotto suddenly disappeared without notice or announcement... Found out later it had been own by a lady and it turned out there wasn't enough in the kitty to pay out..

Rasheed

Strumms wrote: »

The one that the local GAA club used to run in my local always had a sniff of dodge over it especially towards the end... It was rarely won but when it was it was always won by very much one of the GAA glitterati.. You know the type.. A bit of a twat.. Always going on about the 'cummunity' always in the colours and basically blanking anyone who isn't into the GAA... Anyway the lotto suddenly disappeared without notice or announcement... Found out later it had been own by a lady and it turned out there wasn't enough in the kitty to pay out..

Did you ever think of bringing your concerns to the authorities? Genuine question

DazMarz

I know my own local one is; there are at least 8 people present for the drawing and for the checking of tickets. Some are club members, some are not. The draw takes place in the local community centre (not the GAA Clubhouse), and any member of the public can see it. The draw takes place on a stage inside the main hall of the centre. There is usually something going on in the hall at the time, so all of the other people can see what's happening.

In fairness, the amount of times that the GAA lotto here has been won by "an outsider" is very high; the last 4 or 5 times, it has been won (and won individually) by someone from outside the town.

I stressed individually, as that was always a stroke pulled, should the jackpot be won by an outsider; the club would then "find" another "winning" ticket. This "winner" just happened to be the local GAA stalwart/publican/village-idiot. What a happy coincidence. In fairness, we can't have all that money going outside the town, sure!

TheDriver

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

In fairness, it was number 11 and they just looked at it upside down.

Its a lot worse getting the 69 upside down

[it is after hours.......]

Strumms

Rasheed wrote: »

Did you ever think of bringing your concerns to the authorities? Genuine question

By the authorities do you mean the Gardai ? In order to do so I'd need some sort of hard concrete evidence... They generally don't entertain 'concerns' that's why Jesus invented Joe Duffy... The only evidence I would have would be circumstantial and some general info that the 'dogs in the street' would be aware of shall we say as I wouldn't be close enough to the inner working of things to know more. My own personal interest ended a year previous when I got suss and stopped doing it. It's a hardcore GAA pub with lots of current and ex- guards drinking there also... It's seriously dodge but not something I'd be bothered sticking my head over the trenches for...

suicide_circus

He burnt down an orphanage and sold crack to kids but it's ok cause he was a great GAA man altogether.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Everyone driving a car has to have a licence, doesn't mean they do it properly every time.

It's not like a mafia numbers racket, having a licence means that it's a legal gambling operation in the eyes of the state.

Each club doesn't have an independent adjudicator because it's just not practical, the trustees are trusted, many rural clubs life blood is the weekly draw. They get no help from HQ.

A cow called Daisy

They all fixed
I pick the right numbers.
It's the ones running the local gaa lotto pick the wrong ones:D

It regularly won by committee members but then they are very lucky:rolleyes:

DEFTLEFTHAND

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

They all fixed
I pick the right numbers.
It's the ones running the local gaa lotto pick the wrong ones:D

It regularly won by committee members but then they are very lucky:rolleyes:

They're not fixed. Don't say something like that on a public site.