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What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?

  • 14-02-2021 2:48pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I saw this shared on Facebook recently.
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    What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Ruggabugga101


    Bank bail outs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Stay off Facepuke.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Irish Water.
    New Children's Hospital.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    Millennium Clock -voting machines -iodine tablets-COVID tracker app and prob in a few years that kayak water thing that’s being pushed forward in Dublin.


  • Posts: 0 Luis Flaky Treble


    E mac wrote: »
    Millennium Clock -voting machines -iodine tablets-COVID tracker app and prob in a few years that kayak water thing that’s being pushed forward in Dublin.

    Apart from the rest how is the Covid tracker app a waste of money? Its a very functional app certainly providing value for the investment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    Apart from the rest how is the Covid tracker app a waste of money? Its a very functional app certainly providing value for the investment.

    How has it proved value for money ? If it was working it would still be promoted by powers that be instead it seems forgotten about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭jmlad2020


    Apart from the rest how is the Covid tracker app a waste of money? Its a very functional app certainly providing value for the investment.

    Covid Tracker App doesn't work in Northern Ireland. Considering Donegal shares 95% of it's border with Northern Ireland, (and not to mention the other border counties-where cases where highest) contact tracing went to the dogs in these regions.

    Plus the App was a load of **** anyways that barely anyone used.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭Bill G


    The Seanad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    Social Housing.

    Burning the money would be more beneficial to society.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    jmlad2020 wrote: »

    Plus the App was a load of **** anyways that barely anyone used.

    Stephen was great to tell us how many people downloaded but he never really mentions how many people actively uses it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    NGOs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    Stephen was great to tell us how many people downloaded but he never really mentions how many people actively uses it.

    To be fair New Zealand is the only country that’s seems to have a working successful app.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,254 ✭✭✭Esse85


    Harry McGuire


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,778 ✭✭✭✭fits


    There’s a page on Instagram called ugly Irish houses. It’s amazing what some spend money on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    I saw this shared on Facebook recently.
    120996461_203428564545412_8231014389689300473_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=VuS4cJLfBHAAX8-Q9zp&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=8ac56b85ff10d14c92f5347e3961375d&oe=604F2522


    What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?

    Is there a limit as to what you can do in a graveyard or is it a free for all where anyone can build monstrosities like this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Children's hospital
    National broadband scheme


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Is there a limit as to what you can do in a graveyard or is it a free for all where anyone can build monstrosities like this

    There are limits but some just ignore them it seems


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Is there a limit as to what you can do in a graveyard or is it a free for all where anyone can build monstrosities like this

    I think it depends on the graveyard!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Fernando Torres to Chelsea back in the day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Fernando Torres to Chelsea back in the day

    Or anywhere he went after Liverpool....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭SnazzyPig


    Esse85 wrote: »
    Harry McGuire

    I'm going to wait a few minutes before I agree...


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I've been looking at websites of wedding decor suppliers and my God, the amount of tacky rubbish some people spend their money on. Flower walls, bird cages, fake trees, bikes, photobooths, doughnut walls.

    All rotten looking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    jmlad2020 wrote: »
    Covid Tracker App doesn't work in Northern Ireland. Considering Donegal shares 95% of it's border with Northern Ireland, (and not to mention the other border counties-where cases where highest) contact tracing went to the dogs in these regions.

    Plus the App was a load of **** anyways that barely anyone used.
    Firstly, the Irish and NI tracker apps are compatible with each other as far as I know, they were developed by the same Irish company (who also developed apps for several other countries and US states). Secondly, almost 110,000 used the app today alone which seems to be a fairly consistent figure.


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've been looking at websites of wedding decor suppliers and my God, the amount of tacky rubbish some people spend their money on. Flower walls, bird cages, fake trees, bikes, photobooths, doughnut walls.

    All rotten looking.


    Both of your examples seem alright to me, in the grand scheme.. although I do agree with your general sentiment about weddings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    RTE


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭SnazzyPig


    Esse85 wrote: »
    Harry McGuire
    SnazzyPig wrote: »
    I'm going to wait a few minutes before I agree...
    I agree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,290 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    E mac wrote: »
    How has it proved value for money ? If it was working it would still be promoted by powers that be instead it seems forgotten about.

    So it's a waste of money because they didn't spend even more money on promoting it?

    You know how many other places have taken the Irish app and re-used it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,586 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Buying coffee/ tea and lunch every day at work instead of taking your lunch with you 3-4 days a week. Cigarettes as well. Both are within your personal scope to not waste money on

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    I saw this shared on Facebook recently.
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    What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?

    That's pretty cool.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭piplip87


    I've a mate, earns good money but he blows thousands on FIFA points every year. More often than not I end up with a better team than him. I mean it's an addiction at this stage for him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,508 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Is there a limit as to what you can do in a graveyard or is it a free for all where anyone can build monstrosities like this

    Many have no rule, but you would expect discretion should be used. You an go around the one where my parents are buried and it's mostly all simple slabs with some celtic crosses.

    Then you look at the celtic crosses and it's a dick measuring contest between some of the 'better' families in the area.

    Cousin lost a young child to cancer, graveyard has strict limits on size of headstones. All looks good. Worked well until someone else built a mausoleum like the one above a few years back. Now it's a free for all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    Buying coffee/ tea and lunch every day at work instead of taking your lunch with you 3-4 days a week. Cigarettes as well. Both are within your personal scope to not waste money on

    Youd want to be 1 miserable cnut to begrudge yourself the 2.50 or 3 euro a day for a cup of tea/coffee


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    That's pretty cool.

    Pity who's in it won't see it...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Spending the Torres money on Andy Carroll


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    The horses are in surprisingly good condition.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    Those €54m e-voting machines, that were never used, and were kept in storage for another five years at a cost of 3.2 million, and subsequently scrapped for peanuts

    ?width=600&version=4663577


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭bigroad


    Overseas aid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    The horses are in surprisingly good condition.

    Its ironic they spend 10s of thousands on muck like that and tie real horses onto signposts to pick a few blades of dirty grass on the side of the road


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,586 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Youd want to be 1 miserable cnut to begrudge yourself the 2.50 or 3 euro a day for a cup of tea/coffee

    3 euro per working day is equivalent to 700 euro on an average 46/47 week working year. It usuall dose not stop at that. Some may buy 2-3 and more per day. Buying a lunch every working day assuming it costs 3/ day more than bringing your own costs 700/year as well.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    sxt wrote: »
    Those €54m e-voting machines, that were never used, and were kept in storage for another five years at a cost of 3.2 million, and subsequently scrapped for peanuts

    ?width=600&version=4663577

    Not entirely true, they were used twice in a number of constituencies when they trialled them. I voted using them. Still a complete waste of money though.


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  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Its ironic they spend 10s of thousands on muck like that and tie real horses onto signposts to pick a few blades of dirty grass on the side of the road


    It's a sad sign when you don't even have to mention who you're talking about, but everyone knows. :rolleyes:


    They love their tacky sh/te.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    The Maginot Line


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    3 euro per working day is equivalent to 700 euro on an average 46/47 week working year. It usuall dose not stop at that. Some may buy 2-3 and more per day. Buying a lunch every working day assuming it costs 3/ day more than bringing your own costs 700/year as well.

    Worth it imo


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    money put into rugby/tv rights for rugby


    How this is considered more elite than gaa is beyond me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Ryan Tubridy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,586 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Ryan Tubridy

    Ray Darcy was a bigger waster of money.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Both of your examples seem alright to me, in the grand scheme.. although I do agree with your general sentiment about weddings.

    Certainly we all have different tastes and many people would find those kinds of things nice. Weddings can be an absolute money sink. I think it's because you aren't actually immediately spending the full amount of each thing. It's deposits of €100 here and €50 there. Before you know it's 50k gone and you're left scratching your head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Clifden and Inishboffin 'airports' - ~10m spent and they've never officially had a flight.

    Built ~2008 with the intent of giving Inishboffin an air service like the Aran Islands have. Never happened. Runways are still being maintained even though the airports have never opened

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30895268.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,817 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I saw this shared on Facebook recently.
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    What is the greatest waste of money you've seen?

    "King Tut" McDonagh's tomb?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    “A golden goodbye: Slain crime boss Andy Connors buried in gold casket with jewelry worth up to €100,000”

    “Pals of murdered gangster ‘Fat’ Andy Connors are keeping a 24 hour guard over his €100,000 grave.

    The 45-year-old was buried in a gold plated casket yesterday wearing a e40,000 Rolex and jewelry worth a mint.”


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