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

Zebra3 wrote: »

Gullible?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/google-uses-double-irish-loophole-to-pay-no-tax-on-40bn-of-profits-x2bq6c5fk

The Times, so left-wing.

Yep, very gullible. A misleading article, designed to mislead.

"Google Ireland Holdings" holds the shares of "Google Ireland Limited"

Google Ireland Holdings is not tax resident in Ireland, it has no Irish operations itself, it just owns an Irish company. As the article clearly states it is tax resident in Bermuda and not tax resident in Ireland! It has no Irish employees, no Irish sales. If you moved to Bermuda, would you expect to pay tax in Ireland??

Google Ireland Limited, on the other hand is tax resident in Ireland. In 2018, Google Ireland Limited paid €270M in corporation tax and another €40M in Employers' PRSI. They employed 3,600 people in Ireland and paid salaries of €400M.

So to say Google pays no tax in Ireland is WRONG. Way wrong.

Liberta Per Gli Ultra wrote: »

I think you'll find that a moderator would appear on the thread fairly sharpish, to warn about going off-topic, if some of the facts were presented (effective rate of tax paid over the years, etc.).

It is nice though, when an apologist for unethical accounting and corporate greed comes onto a thread about John Delaney and receives many thanks from a bunch of posters who have spent the past year condemning that very same culture of greed and dishonesty within the FAI.

I don't think the moderators are here to ensure factually incorrect posts are removed - there' wouldnt be much left on the site if they were.

That said, If you cannot see the big difference between large corporate who operate within the law, pay the taxes they should be paying by law versus an individual who brought an organisation to it's knees, you probably need to look a bit deeper at the differences between JD and Google.

Where exactly are the corporations you speak of being "Dishonest"?

kippy wrote: »

Have you asked the question as to why?

Old applications made by a certain great leader....look at the names of the Hon. President and Sec. in the link below, you couldnt make it up.....

http://www.munsterfa.com/members.html


Seems if you were JDs mate or a relative is all you needed to be to get a new ground and investment in your club or region.

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Have Irish football fans just stopped caring about this?

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/shane-ross-demands-fai-commitment-to-reform-as-john-earley-re-enters-boardroom-mix-38863235.html

Same old, same old

Only for im a big LOI fan, Id hope the FAI went balls up at this stage, and national team suffered as a result.

Only way JD's men will ever go away

Why do you think Irish football fans have stopped caring ?

HalloweenJack wrote: »

The sad thing is that Shane Ross could very well be gone as Minister for Sport within a month. I think he's played a stormer in how he's dealt with the FAI. Hopefully, we will have someone as committed to sorting out the association but you never know.

FWIW, I wouldn't advocate voting for him solely on what he has done in this case but we do need to have a strong Minister for Sport. We wouldn't want someone along the lines of Healy-Rae who was all too happy to suck up to the FAI when he thought it would be good for him. That said, the fact that he changed his tune may suggest that people are turning against the FAI and want change.

And you can be sure Ross' attitude will change once the election is over. FAI will probably get their bailout once the election is over.

https://www.thesun.ie/news/4999779/crisis-hit-fai-owes-pulse-security-in-excess-of-e100000-irish-sun-can-reveal/

Yet more money owed......

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Delaney has resigned from UEFA with immediate effect as per RTÉ News at One.

Wait-a-minute! Was he not booted out of that gig when it all went splat here? I thought he had to be chief or vice-chief of an organisation to be in UEFA? Wasn't that why the new job he created for himself in the FAI had a peculiar title? Maybe he is going to bless another of the world's footballing nations with his gifts and come back bigger and badder than ever.

check_six wrote: »

Wait-a-minute! Was he not booted out of that gig when it all went splat here? I thought he had to be chief or vice-chief of an organisation to be in UEFA? Wasn't that why the new job he created for himself in the FAI had a peculiar title? Maybe he is going to bless another of the world's footballing nations with his gifts and come back bigger and badder than ever.

You don't get kicked from the UEFA gig immediately. Changing FAI role and no longer being CEO/vice chief just meant he could not be re-elected to the UEFA role in a few years.

Seth Brundle wrote: »

With UEFA? Not at all - someone of his calibre is going to be missed...



https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/newsid=2638010.html

He obviously knows where the skeletons are hidden there as well by the looks of that "glowing" exit story,

kippy wrote: »

He obviously knows where the skeletons are hidden there as well by the looks of that "glowing" exit story,

So they're saying JD created the atmosphere which led to Iceland beating England.

What a man.