John Delaney at the FAI Thread - (Mod Notes in OP)

Deise Vu · 16-05-2019 02:07PM

Cienciano wrote: »

I meant allocating money was his job. He hand delivered it just so idiots would think it was John personally looking after them.

Exactly. I thought the brass neck had changed to titanaium when JD looked for sympathy for by claiming he was doing three jobs: his EUFA junket, CEO of the FAI and "going around the country every week visiting clubs" (his words).

Cienciano · 16-05-2019 02:38PM

Deise Vu wrote: »

Exactly. I thought the brass neck had changed to titanaium when JD looked for sympathy for by claiming he was doing three jobs: his EUFA junket, CEO of the FAI and "going around the country every week visiting clubs" (his words).

Some clubs bought it, thinking John Delaney was a legend because he "even drove up to deliver the cheque". Not thinking "why would CEO on €700k a year be doing such a menial task?". But like Sean Quinn, Charlie Haughey, Bertie and a long list of crooks, they'll always have their supporters.

secman · 16-05-2019 03:05PM

Sepp Delaney always claimed he was doing a stellar job for Irish Football, now we are being bailed out by UEFA, hopefully all those cretins that backed him and left him there are thoroughly ashamed of their contribution to Irish Football.

Ferris_Bueller · 16-05-2019 03:47PM

Is anyone able to summarize what is happening at the minute and over the last week or two? I paid such a close interest initially and sat down to watch oireachtas tv I think three Wednesdays in a row, but it is dragging on so long and there seems to be nothing happening in terms of Delaney leaving/new board announcements (probably exactly what Delaney wants, drag it out and the public lose interest).

dundalkfc10 · 16-05-2019 03:57PM

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Is anyone able to summarize what is happening at the minute and over the last week or two? I paid such a close interest initially and sat down to watch oireachtas tv I think three Wednesdays in a row, but it is dragging on so long and there seems to be nothing happening in terms of Delaney leaving/new board announcements (probably exactly what Delaney wants, drag it out and the public lose interest).

Has got paid near €100,000 since he went on Gardening Leave! Sickeneing

Zebra3 · 16-05-2019 07:18PM

Why doesn’t Delaney just leave and take one of those million euro a year jobs he was always turning down?

Cienciano · 16-05-2019 08:27PM

Zebra3 wrote: »

Why doesn’t Delaney just leave and take one of those million euro a year jobs he was always turning down?

The only way he's going to get a job earning that is if he becomes an expert in cracking safes and joins Oceans 11

Seth Brundle · 16-05-2019 09:08PM

Cienciano wrote: »

The only way he's going to get a job earning that is if he becomes an expert in cracking safes and joins Oceans 11

John would not lower himself to that kind of robbery!

Zebra3 · 17-05-2019 01:42AM

Cienciano wrote: »

The only way he's going to get a job earning that is if he becomes an expert in cracking safes and joins Oceans 11

That actually sounds like work.....

Arghus · 17-05-2019 02:10AM

I have a bad feeling that he might slither away relatively scot free yet. It would be a very Irish resolution to the whole affair.

Some of the revalations that have come out in the last fortnight or so - the loyalty bonus being the worst example - were just as disgraceful as the carry on that started all of this, but the media - with a few exceptions - doesn't seem as interested as it was even 4 to 5 weeks ago.

Gavin "shels" · 17-05-2019 11:42AM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

I am told Rea Walshe is working wonders in the background. She is the link between SI and the ould cnuts who were milking it....she has a lot on the line and is no dope.

Dont forget...we still dont know who the whistle blower was.....but it had to be someone very close to JD as no one else seen anything.

Just on Rea Walshe... bear in mind she was the Licensing Director for this season's LOI! So far.. Waterford have been turfed out of Europe and their budget is missing 300k now while Limerick FC players are on strike due to non-payment of wages! Just because she's changed positions doesn't mean she shouldn't have any accountability!

Irishmale0399 · 17-05-2019 05:52PM

Gavin shels wrote: »

Just on Rea Walshe... bear in mind she was the Licensing Director for this season's LOI! So far.. Waterford have been turfed out of Europe and their budget is missing 300k now while Limerick FC players are on strike due to non-payment of wages! Just because she's changed positions doesn't mean she shouldn't have any accountability!

She has to be held accountable for any she has aided or done. However without someone on the inside helping the investigation you will not get very far as all JDs mates are still protecting him.

They picked Walshe for a number of reasons and I suspect they are:
1. She will be accountable to the law society at the end of everything, hence she will not want to put her future career on the line for JD and should cooperate.

2. If she acted as an internal legal advisor you can bet your bum on it she knows more than most about the goings on.....question is will she sing or point the investigations in the right direction?? I suspect this is the very reason a solicitor was placed in a position with internal legal work....solicitors are like priests in the confession box and JD knew it.

All in all the full management of the FAI, committees, boards and so on have to fully resign and be replaced if needed by non football family members.

As for the "Licensing Director" job...do you really think she could go against Kim Jong D and his deals?? Do you believe he didnt tell every department what to do knowing they were all either dependant on the job or in the position because they were his knodding donkeys.....
The FAI was run for many years by one man and one man only....everyone else only did as he said and knew they couldnt do anything as the lads on the councils and board stood united behind him.

expectationlost · 18-05-2019 12:22PM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

The FAI was run for many years by one man and one man only....everyone else only did as he said and knew they couldnt do anything as the lads on the councils and board stood united behind him.

so why take a job there?

Irishmale0399 · 18-05-2019 12:37PM

expectationlost wrote: »

so why take a job there?

Question is...what was she employed as. My info is that she was employed as inhouse legal council for the FAI, cushy number on good money. The the reality hits home and you either resign or follow the great leader. She as many others took the money and followed. 100% sure 95% of the users here would do the same.

BonnieSituation · 18-05-2019 12:50PM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

Question is...what was she employed as. My info is that she was employed as inhouse legal council for the FAI, cushy number on good money. The the reality hits home and you either resign or follow the great leader. She as many others took the money and followed. 100% sure 95% of the users here would do the same.

Delaney is a particularly odious fúcker.

Regardless of my seemingly lack of morals sometimes, it would want to have been a serious leap of faith to stand square by him given what he is.

I mean as a LOI fan and and Ireland fan I've watched him strip the soul out of the sport in this country for minimal return.

I'd have been in the door and out the back whistleblowing within days to get the sham out on his ear.

The crumbling of this edifice is as delightful as I could have hoped especially as it's happening in slow motion to boot.

expectationlost · 18-05-2019 01:14PM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

Question is...what was she employed as. My info is that she was employed as inhouse legal council for the FAI, cushy number on good money. The the reality hits home and you either resign or follow the great leader. She as many others took the money and followed. 100% sure 95% of the users here would do the same.

but as you said yourself its been a one man show for years why did she seek a job there in 2014? she didn't find herself stuck in a job that went bad, she chose to put herself in position of going into a institution that stank for years.

yabadabado · 18-05-2019 01:21PM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

Question is...what was she employed as. My info is that she was employed as inhouse legal council for the FAI, cushy number on good money. The the reality hits home and you either resign or follow the great leader. She as many others took the money and followed. 100% sure 95% of the users here would do the same.

I'd like to think that the majority of people would have a little more integrity and would walk away.

FAI don't pay particularly well either and have massive issues keeping staff .Maybe that was more to do with people realising the **** that was going on and wanting n involvement rather than money.

Irishmale0399 · 18-05-2019 01:42PM

expectationlost wrote: »

but as you said yourself its been a one man show for years why did she seek a job there in 2014? she chose to put herself in position of going into a institution that stank for years

Again the question is what was she promised or what were her other options, was she making money/in demand before the FAI came along?? Did she buy into JDs world, is she the daughter/niece of an FAI insider, do the working hours fit into her private life or was she told she would be able to change something???

yabadabado wrote: »

I'd like to think that the majority of people would have a little more integrity and would walk away.

FAI don't pay particularly well either and have massive issues keeping staff .Maybe that was more to do with people realising the **** that was going on and wanting n involvement rather than money.

Have you ever met a lawyer that showed morals or integrity. I suspect she was on a nice wage for doing very little....maybe also topping up her income by invoicing the FAI for private legal advice/consulting or working for one of JDs investments, hence why they want privileged papers kept away from the ODCE. I have asked a member of the government committee to ask for the issue to be looked into months ago. Something had to flow to keep her stumm.

The other big question that no one is asking......Who is the insider feeding the press???? How many knew about the loan???

expectationlost · 18-05-2019 01:56PM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

The other big question that no one is asking......Who is the insider feeding the press???? How many knew about the loan???

think its fairly obvious who it is, somebody that no longer works there.

Zebra3 · 18-05-2019 02:06PM

The loan came up in the Family Court.

yabadabado · 18-05-2019 02:21PM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

Have you ever met a lawyer that showed morals or integrity. I suspect she was on a nice wage for doing very little....maybe also topping up her income by invoicing the FAI for private legal advice/consulting or working for one of JDs investments, hence why they want privileged papers kept away from the ODCE. I have asked a member of the government committee to ask for the issue to be looked into months ago. Something had to flow to keep her stumm.

The other big question that no one is asking......Who is the insider feeding the press???? How many knew about the loan???

Yes I have and I'd wager the majority of them are.Lawyers/Solicitors arent all some sort of David Kleinfeld type character .

Everyone wants to know who the whistleblower is and that has been asked several times.The journalists aren't going to disclose that.They have been chasing JD for years but injunctions and threatening letters usually seen a story die.
There are numerous people who would do it .Whoever it is deserved a medal.

Irishmale0399 · 18-05-2019 02:33PM

yabadabado wrote: »

Yes I have and I'd wager the majority of them are.Lawyers/Solicitors arent all some sort of David Kleinfeld type character .

Everyone wants to know who the whistleblower is and that has been asked several times.The journalists aren't going to disclose that.They have been chasing JD for years but injunctions and threatening letters usually seen a story die.
There are numerous people who would do it .Whoever it is deserved a medal.

Not only a medal but also a place on the new board!!!

yabadabado · 18-05-2019 02:48PM

Irishmale0399 wrote: »

Not only a medal but also a place on the new board!!!

Doubt their names will ever become public knowledge,one of them has moved onto a much better gig ,I doubt they want anything to do with the FAI ****show.

johnnyryan89 · 20-05-2019 08:40AM

So Noel Mooney has been parachuted in by UEFA to help run the FAI for the next six months. The same Noel Mooney who in 2017 stood up at the FAI AGM and firmly lodged his tongue so far up JDs ass that I'm shocked he managed to pull it back out. Lavishing praise on the how the once young CEO made the FAI fit for purpose, so you gotta laugh that less than two years later Mooney is being asked to help out because of the absolute state that once young CEO has left the FAI in.

Also it was JD who first brought Mooney into the FAI and would have been an influence behind Mooney getting his chushy gig with UEFA.

yabadabado · 20-05-2019 09:18AM

Yeah this appointment stinks .Mooney was also touted as a option for CEO job once this mess is sorted, he would be an awful appointment.

mugsymugsy · 20-05-2019 09:43AM

The optics doesn't look good. Not that we are a mob mentality and looking for blood but I think a lot of fans feel that after a number of false promises of reform we now have someone very much associated with people from the past.

A complete reform is required.

yabadabado · 20-05-2019 09:47AM

I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with an ex FAI employee getting the job if I thought they would reform the association but Mooney was an extremely pro JD voice.

Has he seen the error of his ways ?

Seth Brundle · 20-05-2019 10:03AM

Did UEFA pick him or did someone such as Rea (or Sepp D. himself) nominate him?

yabadabado · 20-05-2019 10:09AM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Did UEFA pick him or did someone such as Rea (or Sepp D. himself) nominate him?

He has the job with UEFA a few years but no idea if JD helped him out.He sang his praises when he was leaving, along the lines of JD was an inspiration to work with.

Mooney was head of league marketing and promotion for the FAI ,I'd love to know what he actually did because no one in FAI seems to care about LoI .

shanec1928 · 20-05-2019 10:12AM

shanec1928 wrote: »

Good to see the progress being made with transparency at fai hq

a few more shuffles to try cloud things even further.

John Delaney at the FAI Thread - (Mod Notes in OP)

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