Galway GAA Discussion Thread #2

Utopia Parkway

I presume Donal Ó Fatharta is staying over the minor footballers.

Padraic Joyce to take charge of the U-20 footballers.

Brian Hanley the minor hurlers.

And Jeffrey Lynskey moves from the minors to the U-20 hurlers.

jr86

Took a while to get going but Corofin's class showed in the second half.

Can't see them losing to Ulster winners and Spiddal have been so dogged so far

With St Thomas's and Oran-Maree both playing Ulster teams in the hurling could Galway have 4 clubs in All-Ireland finals? Would be amazing if it transpired

Frozen Veg

Fairly scandalous that both the 2017 and 2018 u21 hurling championships are ongoing the moment with neither looking like they'll be finished this year.

jr86

Frozen Veg wrote: »

Fairly scandalous that both the 2017 and 2018 u21 hurling championships are ongoing the moment with neither looking like they'll be finished this year.

Such a shame as there's some cracking matches this weekend which would be ideal for a Spring/Summer's day

Oranmore play Thomas's I see - two teams who are far better off with their senior members getting a good December rest. Does Fintan Burke really need this now after a long season, and a likelihood of being a Galway senior panelist next year

Utopia Parkway

MfMan wrote: »

Ya, no mention yet of selectors.

Apparently John Divilly and Liam Sammon are part of his backroom team.

aidan24326

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Apparently John Divilly and Liam Sammon are part of his backroom team.

John Concannon has been mentioned aswell.

leestone

Has the hurling squad for next year being named yet?

Happyilylost

leestone wrote:

Has the hurling squad for next year being named yet?

MD has said the panel is opened ended till the end of February. A lot of players missing (St Thomas, Oranmore, injuries) a lot of the U21 panel from last year brought in for the moment.

Utopia Parkway

Happyilylost wrote: »

MD has said the panel is opened ended till the end of February. A lot of players missing (St Thomas, Oranmore, injuries) a lot of the U21 panel from last year brought in for the moment.

The rumoured new additions to the panel so far are Fintan Burke (St Thomas'), Kevin Cooney (Sarsfields), Cianan Fahy (Ardrahan), Sean Bleahane (Ahascragh/Fohenagh, Patrick Foley (Clarinbridge), Ronan O'Meara (Portumna), Kevin Hussey (Turloughmore), Sean Kilduff (Clarinbridge) and Jarlath Mannion (Cappataggle).

jr86

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

The rumoured new additions to the panel so far are Fintan Burke (St Thomas'), Kevin Cooney (Sarsfields), Cianan Fahy (Ardrahan), Sean Bleahane (Ahascragh/Fohenagh, Patrick Foley (Clarinbridge), Ronan O'Meara (Portumna), Kevin Hussey (Turloughmore), Sean Kilduff (Clarinbridge) and Jarlath Mannion (Cappataggle).

Yeah, heard the same myself

fearruanua

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Gaillimh Abú!

I says

Any word on meeting?

cosatron

I says wrote: »

Any word on meeting?

the money was only resting in my account mr chairman, was a phrase commonly used

grbear

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/galway-clubs-want-answers-after-damning-audit-892456.html

Grim stuff and makes the administrators look like cowboys. It makes sound like it could be theoretically easy enough for someone to trouser a few bob and get away with it. Emphasis on theoretical mind, I'm not saying anyone did something like that.

The impression I get from that report is that they could possibly have afforded to keep the Mountain South site if they desperately wanted to.

grbear

https://twitter.com/cormicaneoghan/status/1074753795861680135?s=19

This whole thread. Sweet Jesus.

"Mike Burke: 'Misuse of Galway GAA credit card was a serious abuse of Galway GAA finances'."

"Mike Burke: I want to make quite clear that many of the people in management were totally unaware of the problems and were kept in the dark."


"Mike Burke says for the first nine months of his term this year, there was no information forthcoming from the Galway GAA office with regard to financial mismanagement."


"'Good riddance to those who have done a disservice to Galway GAA'"

"One delegate poses the question is there a provision for money missing on the year’s accounts?

Treasurer Michael Burke confirms there is money missing, there was unauthorised bonus given and tickets unaccounted for. But he can’t put a figure on it "


"Galway GAA Treasurer Michael Burke states for his nine months, he couldn’t get any information from certain individuals in Pearse Stadium. And if they were a private business they would be in receivership #GAA #galwayGAA"

"Question posed as to where is the missing money in Galway GAA by delegates? Did the management committee ratify the bonus? Michael Burke states to draw own conclusions but he must safeguard himself. #GAA #galwayGAA"

grbear

Sorry, I also included tweets from here

https://twitter.com/peterswellman/status/1074756209025171456?s=19

big_drive

Whats the bonus that is mentioned for? All Ireland win '17?

Frozen Veg

Disgraceful stuff.

Not surprising when those at the very top are ex politicians.

Diabhal Beag

Absolutely raging with that. We're rightfully a laughing stock now.

The fact they'll get away with these dodge as **** dealings is gutting.

Clubs around the county down on their knees and fundraising for any bit of money they can get and you have cowboys "mishandling" huge amounts of money.

It'll take somebody like Pat McDonagh to rock the boar here. Burke saying all the right things but they'll just deny anything negative coming their direction.

grbear

big_drive wrote: »

Whats the bonus that is mentioned for? All Ireland win '17?

Don't think so. The big issue appears to be that bonuses were paid to some officials but they weren't properly accounted for. Bonuses were being abused basically.

By all accounts Burke went as far as he could last night when it came to telling people where the problems were. He couldn't name names as he'd be waking up to a solicitors letter this morning if he did. By making this carry on public knowledge he has done more for Galway GAA in the last 12 months than most officials will do in their entire careers.


Just read this little tidbit this morning. " Pearse Stadium has neither a money safe nor a cash register"

How many league games this spring alone had attendances over 5,000 people with a lot of them paying cash? There had to have been north of €50,000 in cash at the Stadium a few times this spring and no proper care taken. If the money bag had a hole in it a few thousand could have just vanished/been lost.

grbear

Noel Treacy last night " For the past six months there has been a serious negative briefing of Galway GAA and it has done untold damage to our county".


Yeah, its the people tackling the abuse of County finances and talking about it that are the problem.

big_drive

grbear wrote: »

Don't think so. The big issue appears to be that bonuses were paid to some officials but they weren't properly accounted for. Bonuses were being abused basically.

By all accounts Burke went as far as he could last night when it came to telling people where the problems were. He couldn't name names as he'd be waking up to a solicitors letter this morning if he did. By making this carry on public knowledge he has done more for Galway GAA in the last 12 months than most officials will do in their entire careers.


Just read this little tidbit this morning. " Pearse Stadium has neither a money safe nor a cash register"

How many league games this spring alone had attendances over 5,000 people with a lot of them paying cash? There had to have been north of €50,000 in cash at the Stadium a few times this spring and no proper care taken. If the money bag had a hole in it a few thousand could have just vanished/been lost.

Thanks. Wasn't sure if they'd meant bonus to the like of physio, strength and conditioning coaches , etc on back of all ireland

Not sure why officials would be entitled to a bonus?

Utopia Parkway

Amongst the many other things how did they manage to make only €120K from two Ed Sheeran concerts when Cork made well over a million from three?

Seems those rumours afterwards that the promoter basically made eejits of them in the negotiations were true after all. Cork had consulted with Croke Park about the concert negotiations while Galway thought they could do it by themselves and ended up being taken for a ride.

grbear

John Fogarty from The Examiner really put the concert mess into context today. Galway GAA made less than €2 per head while Cork GAA made almost €12 per head.

If Galway had made just €4 per head they'd have recorded a surplus for the year even after nearly €500,000 of extraordinary expenses like writing off €100,000 bad debt and paying off the 2015 All-Ireland final tickets.

big_drive

grbear wrote: »

John Fogarty from The Examiner really put the concert mess into context today. Galway GAA made less than €2 per head while Cork GAA made almost €12 per head.

If Galway had made just €4 per head they'd have recorded a surplus for the year even after nearly €500,000 of extraordinary expenses like writing off €100,000 bad debt and paying off the 2015 All-Ireland final tickets.

unreal when put into context like that

Tommy Kelly

It's well know a certain man at the top was caught with 60,000 euro cash in the boot of his car a few years ago. The same cnut isn't even a Galway man.

padd b1975

grbear wrote: »

Don't think so. The big issue appears to be that bonuses were paid to some officials but they weren't properly accounted for. Bonuses were being abused basically.

By all accounts Burke went as far as he could last night when it came to telling people where the problems were. He couldn't name names as he'd be waking up to a solicitors letter this morning if he did. By making this carry on public knowledge he has done more for Galway GAA in the last 12 months than most officials will do in their entire careers.


Just read this little tidbit this morning. " Pearse Stadium has neither a money safe nor a cash register"

How many league games this spring alone had attendances over 5,000 people with a lot of them paying cash? There had to have been north of €50,000 in cash at the Stadium a few times this spring and no proper care taken. If the money bag had a hole in it a few thousand could have just vanished/been lost.

Gets very windy out that way too...

BENDYBINN

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Amongst the many other things how did they manage to make only €120K from two Ed Sheeran concerts when Cork made well over a million from three?

Seems those rumours afterwards that the promoter basically made eejits of them in the negotiations were true after all. Cork had consulted with Croke Park about the concert negotiations while Galway thought they could do it by themselves and ended up being taken for a ride.

Made eejits of them,are you for real?
Must feel so bad havin been caught out...........who’s foolin who here?

testtech05

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Made eejits of them,are you for real?
Must feel so bad havin been caught out...........who’s foolin who here?

I would have thought it more likely based on the rest of the information coming out that the lack of return from Ed Sheeran was more likely to be down to "errors" in the accounting than poor negotiating.

Happyilylost

Tommy Kelly wrote:

It's well know a certain man at the top was caught with 60,000 euro cash in the boot of his car a few years ago. The same cnut isn't even a Galway man.

He's under investigation by AGS so something might come of it. Rest is a joke known around for too long. If Mountain South didn't happen and the draconian levies weren't put on clubs this may never of come to light. Too many clubs under too much pressure finally started asking enough questions as to where the money was going. Once thread was pulled it quickly unravelled.