General Irish politics discussion thread

What's the exact issue at hand here? I'm trying to understand what the allegation is? That somebody was paying out in invoices for work not done? Or overpaying? Something like that?

And multiply that by 15. (Or whatever number)

Neither Gould or Collins would be the sharpest tools in the box, so I suspect that when it was noticed it probably wasn't too difficult to decipher.

My guess is the gardai have more knowledge than Gould and Collins think they have.

I wonder if mlmd will be making a dail statement - particularly as she was demanding one after a td was arrested for the relatively minor issue of being drunk.

Funny, mlmd knew about the €150,000 fraud allegations against a sitting SF td and sitting councilor at the same time as asking for dail statement on someone who was drunk.

Never stopped her or her minions from demanding other parties to make statements on relatively minor issues.

Interesting that she refuses to say that Gould was arrested by the gardai.

“He was interviewed by gardaí in Cork yesterday [Friday] and made a detailed statement to them,” she said. The usual sf cheerleaders seem to be quiet - most likely waiting for direction from belfast 🤣

The company he worked for is John Daly & Sons (JDS Foods) and it was bought by West Cork based Lisavaird Co-op in 2017. It is Lisavaird that found the "irregularities"

Was the criminal complaint made by Lisavaird CoOp then? That would surely mean it’s not politically motivated because such decisions would have the oversight of their board?

The board of any CoOp or plc have a fiduciary duty in that respect don’t they

It’s a complicated matter technically,was Gould CFO of the purchased food company or what role did he have with them? Did he have any relationship with the recepient(s) of the alleged over spend are probably some things Gardaí are looking into?

Particularly embarrassing for SF regardless if as a party they’re singing and dancing about Leinster house over spending/public money wastage that their T.D’s did not question despite being on its oversight committee and those over spends were not subject to criminal investigation

This one is

Terrible look for Gould.

He is known in Cork to be both a loudmouth and a bit of an idiot. Seems he tried to pull a fast one and got caught out.

Me thinks he should resign as a TD a by election should be held.

😁What?

In almost every news piece SF confirm he 'has been arrested'.

In the time between the first media reports and Goulds name coming out, the Online Friends on Twitter were going hard on "it has to be FFG because otherwise the media would have named them"

Probably more deleted tweets now than on anything else!

Gas.
Construct your conspiracy theories all you want.

As if not saying a specific word makes it somehow untrue. 😁

It isn't my party.

If he is guilty yes it is embarrassing for that TD.

If the party had something to do with it, ditto for them.

'Fraud' is the operative word here. Somebody set out to defraud and hide what they were doing. It's not 'waste' and 'overspend'.

It’s ‘fraud’ by one or two people. It isn’t departmental incompetence. And no amount of trying will make them similar.
As usual the gun is being jumped.

You now claim they are innocent until proven guilty but were quick to tell us not only they but SF too should be ‘embarrassed’.
If they are innocent- what have they to be embarrassed about?

Because she didn’t need to?

We know they were arrested.

The quality of the conspiracy theories certainly has gone down about here.😁

you’re getting ahead of yourself there it’s being investigated for fraud,no charges,no convictions,no crime at this stage

But if Gould and the other SF guy signed off on something way too expensive by the order of 150,000,then that’s embarrassing for the party shouting about money wastage