€2m taxpayer funds for GAA facilities

"We’re building a dome here and we’re using all the hot air that comes out of our Connacht Council meetings!" joked provincial secretary John Prenty.

Loving it

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

GAA folks are taxpayers too. If two million people in Ireland enjoy the ol' GAA that's only one euro each out of their taxes.

Tax isn't a savings scheme where you get to spend it on your favourite things .

The gaa has plenty of money to build their domes wherever they like.

Sports Grant's and the like should be for grassroots areas of sports. Activities for top level sports that generate their own money should be self funded.

fryup wrote: »

i hate the GAA and everything they stand for >insular irish narrow mindedness

i don't want a penny of my taxpayers money going to them, we should be promoting international sports

They're not insular. They will allow anybody to join them, not matter what their politics, class, colour or creed.

For instance nearly half my club's current minor panel are of eastern European extraction.

^^^^^^^^^^^

unbelievable in this day & age

*thats what i'm getting at with my previous post

mrmorgan wrote: »

Like what rugby?? A sport full of idiots!!

We should be promoting our national sport!

Sorry, I've decided that croquet is the new national sport. We'll be building a new National Croquet Centre which will have a double dome with a central tower. It should only cost the tax payer €5 each and we've found a site with a lovely ringfort which we can level without planning permission on which to build this monument to true Irishness.

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Do you honestly believe that. Clubs paying €10-€15,000 and you say this is expenses?

From last years annual report

https://www.gaa.ie/news/payment-managers-strike-the-heart-gaa-ethos/

The GAA cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the culture of illegal payments to team managers at club and county level.

That was the warning issued today by outgoing GAA Ard Stiurthóir Páraic Duffy in his Annual Report.

The most significant development since 2010, in my view, is that an increasing number of irregular payments are now being made at club level.

“Such payments strike at the heart of the origins and relevance of the Association’s amateur and volunteer ethos.

I'm guessing reading comprehension wasn't high on the list of topics in dundalk schools then


Clubs and county boards dress up a percentage that they think they can get away with as "Travel and Expenses".
The rest is completely off the books and hidden by getting a sponsor to make the payment directly. So instead of getting sponsorship and making a payment - all of which would leave an audit trail in the accounts - they have arrangements with sponsors to keep the cash flow away from any official GAA accounts. These are the "irregular" payments,

Deleted User wrote: »

They are, and your foreign garrison games are still your foreign garrison games no matter how many green jerseys you dress them up in.

was there really any need to bring that in? what do you really gain by mentioning that?

If you're annoyed about €2m to a body that runs valuable community sporting facilities in every parish in the country, wait until you hear about the €16m the greyhound industry gets so they can give prize money to a tiny handful of animal abusers involved in a niche sport that gives nothing back.