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Olympic Council fella Pat Hickey Arrested in Rio

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    #3272
    ahlookit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    Thoie wrote: »
    Unless it was American money or an American company, that's still none of their business. If I work for an American company in Ireland, I can't do business with any of the embargoed countries. If I have my own company in Ireland, I can do business with anyone I want.

    There's also a FATF blacklist which Irish banks aren't supposed to deal with

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Action_Task_Force_on_Money_Laundering


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    #3273
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Mal, your trying too hard. A bit like his Solr.


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    #3274
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,388 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Andalucia wrote: »
    if benjamin franklins are being used anywhere along the line, then they have an interest - likely to have been the case here

    One thing that immediately strikes me is that both events would be considered prestige ones within the Rio Olympics and demand for tickets would be very high (but of no interest to Irish people clearly).


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    #3275
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    CFlat wrote: »
    I'm fairly sure I heard that the IOC would pay has legal expenses if it goes to court and he wins the case but if he's found guilty he will have to cover the expenses himself.

    The OCI, not the IOC.


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    #3276
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    Water John wrote: »
    Mal, your trying too hard. A bit like his Solr.

    And you're not trying hard enough John.


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    #3277
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Thoie wrote: »
    Unless it was American money or an American company, that's still none of their business. If I work for an American company in Ireland, I can't do business with any of the embargoed countries. If I have my own company in Ireland, I can do business with anyone I want.

    It's their business if the organisation wishes to have a presence in America.Fifa was investigated by the FBI because they have offices in Miami.same goes for ioc.


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    #3278
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,857 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    LorMal wrote: »
    And you're not trying hard enough John.

    One man PR army...


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    #3279
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    LorMal wrote: »
    I totally agree. I don't think taxpayers are the victims on this one though. I cannot believe our tolerance about our terrible public services, third world health system, rubbish public transport, atrocious mental health services, corrupt police force, escalating suicide rates, rampant alcoholism and drug problems and an appalling and ineffectual political system, let we get apoplectic about Olympic tickets and a few flights and hotel rooms.
    Yes it stinks. I hope whoever is guilty is caught and punished accordingly. But we have far bigger fish to fry.

    Yeah we have all those issues.do you hear anyone saying lets forget about these issues and focus on pat hickey?no! Why not attempt to nail everyone screwing us over? It would be an example to other irish cronies that their nonsense isn't accepted by the international community.should we stop prosecuting social welfare fraud because it's small fish?you're talking through your arse


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    #3280
    CFlat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,788 ✭✭✭CFlat


    maudgonner wrote: »
    The OCI, not the IOC.

    Too many acronyms being used in this thread. Gets very confusing.


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    #3281
    Lemsiper
    Registered Users Posts: 661 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    What is medically wrong with Hickey?


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    #3282
    Andalucia
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Andalucia


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    What is medically wrong with Hickey?

    Tricky Hickey has a sticky micky after the quickie


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    #3283
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,478 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    What is medically wrong with Hickey?
    Incurable shysterism.


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    #3284
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    What is medically wrong with Hickey?

    Allergic to the truth.


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    #3285
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    What is medically wrong with Hickey?

    He's got a heart condition but his head may roll or else he's gonna have a pack of internet vultures on his back


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    #3286
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,863 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    What is medically wrong with Hickey?

    https://youtu.be/3XL1m89nkk8?t=49s


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    #3287
    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭SILVAMAN


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    What is medically wrong with Hickey?
    His anal sphinchter needs adjusting


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    #3288
    ahlookit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/3XL1m89nkk8?t=49s

    Looking forward to the remake with PH as Withnail and Delaney as "I" :D


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    #3289
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    listermint wrote: »
    One man PR army...

    Sorry for not joining in the group think. What do you want? Hope Hickey gets life sentence and his wife gets 10 years?
    This is just another media generated hate fest for keyboard warriors and bullies - like the Peru drug mules or the Mc Cann family.


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    #3290
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    LorMal wrote: »
    Sorry for not joining in the group think. What do you want? Hope Hickey gets life sentence and his wife gets 10 years?
    This is just another media generated hate fest for keyboard warriors and bullies - like the Peru drug mules or the Mc Cann family.

    Your post makes no sense.the media is pulling out all the stops to defend him.did joe duffy or marion f attack hickey?


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    #3291
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    What is medically wrong with Hickey?

    His "Call my bluff" antenna isn't working as well as it used to.


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    #3292
    CFlat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,788 ✭✭✭CFlat


    smurgen wrote: »
    Allergic to the truth.

    A bit of truth on this thread wouldn't go a miss. The man hasn't even been charged with a crime yet and he's already been tried, found guilty and sentenced here.

    Anyway that was a sure hit post with the baying for blood back slapping sycophants on this thread.


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    #3293
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    smurgen wrote: »
    Your post makes no sense.the media is pulling out all the stops to defend him.did joe duffy or marion f attack hickey?

    Rubbish. The Indo and other rags have flogged this story to death. It's a permanent fixture on their front page.


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    #3294
    Thoie
    Registered Users Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    smurgen wrote: »
    It's their business if the organisation wishes to have a presence in America.Fifa was investigated by the FBI because they have offices in Miami.same goes for ioc.

    Yes, but the OCI doesn't have US offices.


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    #3295
    CMOTDibbler
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭CMOTDibbler


    LorMal wrote: »
    Rubbish. The Indo and other rags have flogged this story to death. It's a permanent fixture on their front page.
    I did a little search on the Indo website. Over 200 articles since the story broke.

    That's almost 10 a day.


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    #3296
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    CFlat wrote: »
    A bit of truth on this thread wouldn't go a miss. The man hasn't even been charged with a crime yet and he's already been tried, found guilty and sentenced here.

    Anyway that was a sure hit post with the baying for blood back slapping sycophants on this thread.

    Exactly right. If the fella gets found guilty then he deserves to be locked up. However, nothing has been proven yet. The amount of vindictive schadenfreude on this thread is disgusting.


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    #3297
    gordongekko
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    Muff Richardson wrote: »
    If the likes of John Giles had been arrested for similar accusations there would be public outcry and support for the man, Hickey has very few supporters other than his closest associates and those in power...ask yourself why, the athletes themselves have no sympathy either.

    Where would John Giles get 800 tickets for the Olympics?


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    #3298
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    gordongekko wrote: »
    Where would John Giles get 800 tickets for the Olympics?
    A quick call to THG might sort him out for that number!


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    #3299
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Thoie wrote: »
    Yes, but the OCI doesn't have US offices.

    The IOC does though


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    #3300
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    Exactly right. If the fella gets found guilty then he deserves to be locked up. However, nothing has been proven yet. The amount of vindictive schadenfreude on this thread is disgusting.

    There does seem to be a certain amount of glee taken by some people in the way he has been treated. I'd wager many of these people complained when Daly was handcuffed or Paul Murphy was arrested and called it abuse of power, but video a naked guy in power getting arrested and held for weeks without reason and it's a cause for celebration.


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    #3301
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    There does seem to be a certain amount of glee taken by some people in the way he has been treated. I'd wager many of these people complained when Daly was handcuffed or Paul Murphy was arrested and called it abuse of power, but video a naked guy in power getting arrested and held for weeks without reason and it's a cause for celebration.

    I think there is also an element of people delighting in someone in power being "taken down a peg or two" even if most people know very little about the man. I'm getting the sense that a lot of people are judging Hickey by their own low standards ("Ah he's in power so of course he's on the fiddle.").

    He may well be guilty. He may well be dodgy. I just don't believe that most of the people having a pop know one way or the other and are just weighing in because of the fella's position.


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