The Tories face annihilation at the European and local elections next month.
And a total wipeout at the next general election.
Welcome back then to Nigel Farage – 65,000 members of his new Brexit party, £750,000 in donations swelling the coffers and already steaming up the opinion polls despite only being launched this week.
British politics has been changed forever by the Tories shambolic failure to deliver Brexit and Farage has them quaking in their boots.
It”s like Groundhog Day and this one will run and run.
Good times.
Don’t be so mean – they just want the Empire back – what’s not to love about that?
eoin
So the DUP intransigence will lead to a general election where Corbyn will be prime minister with a majority bolstered by the Scottish Nationalist Party. And no Assembly still in Northern Ireland.
Looks like we’ll have an Independence referendum in Scotland and a Border Poll in Ireland by the end of 2019. A reunified Ireland by Christmas.
And before that, we’ll have an Irish Language Act, Abortion, Gay Marriage, reform of Defamation Laws, reform of Blasphemy Laws and a few other reforms to bring Northern Ireland out of its backwater.
Thank you DUP, you’re the best.
bisted
…hope your analysis is right Eoin…the irony is that all you forecast would have come about (and quicker) in the event of a ‘no deal’…so…double thanks DUP…
SOQ
More importantly- Is it possible that in the north, for the first time ever, the majority of people will vote along lines other than nationalism? If so, that will be a truly historic moment.
It is solidly remain after all and the DUP are not. The Alliance Party will be the big winners in that sort of scenario, because the UUP are also in the leave camp.
Former investment banker, stockbroker, lead writer of The Daily Telegraph and unsuccessful Tory candidate. Daughter off Times editor William Rees-Mogg and sister of Jacob Rees-Mogg. Educated at exclusive private school. Fox hunting enthusiast. Now standing as a Brexit candidate for Farage’s Brexit party.
Surprised she wasn’t in the TCD Hist as “auditrix”. Typecast again.
scottser
Bang of Ollie off you, lad.
No Teeth Keith
First Nigel Farage.
Now Tiger Woods.
What a week for comebacks.
Nigel
I’m impressed, though. First time I’ve heard of a rat trying to get back on board a sinking ship.
Formerly known as @ireland.com
Brexit is dead.
eoin
So John Delaney is losing another of his three jobs because he’s out of the FAI having lost the confidence of the Board, players, supporters, the government.
At least he still has the loss-making furniture business in Tipperary and the debt-embattled property development company.
But what is this, he’s keeping the most lucrative football role, at UEFA. And I bet the €120,000 “fee” will increase substantially. How can he parachute into the most lucrative of international football roles when he is a disgrace at home?
martco
“How can he parachute into the most lucrative of international football roles when he is a disgrace at home?”
you’re kidding, right?
it’s his raison d’être
he’ll slide very nicely up that particular greasy pole or the other ones at FIFA or IOC “families”
perfect candidate mix of Arfur Daly business acumen.
Dub Spot
Just watch who makes it as MEP. Precedent a-plenty.
eoin
You’re missing the Sunday Times frontpage (at 7.30am Sunday).
Their lead story is about John Delaney’s €40,000 spending on his FAI credit card in the last six months of 2016.
“he used the FAI credit card to pay for duty-free purchases at airports, meals in his local pub in Wicklow and to make cash withdrawals of more than €6,000 in six months. Purchases on Delaney’s FAI credit card included €400 at a Hilfiger store, more than €500 on two visits to an executive dry-cleaning outfit, and a €226 bill from [shirtmaker] Thomas Pink”
This comes on top of his €360,000 salary, €3,000/mth rent and what else? Is this the sort of person we want at UEFA?
eoin
The Sunday Times is really going to town on the €40,000 credit card bill, detailing every steak dinner and a €66.74 purchase at Michael Healy-Rae’s filling station. Someone at the FAI really doesn’t like John! But that appeared to the case anyway when the revelations of the loan and rental accommodation were drip-dripped across the press (Mark Tighe’s Sunday Times).
If he hadn’t told friends yesterday he was stepping down from the FAI (but clinging onto his role at UEFA which will no doubt expand), then the credit card story today would drive him over the edge.
The next interesting policy issue is, what do you do with supranational organisations like FIFA, UEFA or indeed the European Broadcasting Union (which is arranging the Eurovision in Israel next month)? They’re effectively accountable to no-one.
That type of credit card activity would most definitely suggest a solid ground for concern – possible misuse of the association’s funds, or at the very least, using high rate credit card finance to provide working capital / day-to-day cash flow
Enough to be a mention in their post- audit letter to the Board, and an item at their meeting to sign off
So it kinda has me wondering who the is the Sunday Times source
It’s as obvious as púc now
That the FAIs finance department was a joke
And the Board didn’t give a hoot
John Delaney ran the place like a family business
Yet Deloittes found nothing untoward
If I conducted my practice like that I’d be wiped out
And if the board I chair was as wishy washy about the competence of their financial reports I’d never hear the end of it
I’d say there must be great craic in there at the moment
Between Grant Thornton’s crowd and Deloittes
I said this already I know
But tis worth saying it again
Deloittes – as with any external Audit Report,
When it’s signed off
Provide a confirmation that they got access to all the records, satisfactory responses to their queries, and that accounts were kept in an orderly manner.
Clearly they didn’t look or ask
Or they turned a blind eye
From what I’ve learned over the past fortnight or so
It seems to me that Going Concern needs to be talked about.
I still can’t believe Deloittes have gotten off so lightly with that 2017 Audit Report
GiggidyGoo
If one person is at it, and the rest of the board haven’t been flying red flags, that suggests to me that there may be more than one company credit card being flexed, or other things being written off/expensed or whatever. There may be a lot more than Delaney’ tribulations to come out of this.
I see there’s a call in cork for the stand named after his da to be boycotted. Wasn’t he something to do with finance in the FAI?
Bodger
eoin, the ST Never came in. They usually send it.
GiggidyGoo
Delaney should be dumped out of anything to do with soccer in this country. No role whatsoever. Somehow he’s a director of the Aviva Stadium itself.
Remember Thierry Henry’s double hand ball? Remember Blatter making fun at Ireland’s expense, but followed later by ‘we will do something special for Ireland’?
Well, if we can get to a stage where Delaney is dumped completely, then that ‘something special’ should be called in.
The Healy Rae’s can give him a job driving a digger perhaps
eoin
€40,000 credit card bill for six months, which includes thousands in cash withdrawals?
No wonder the FAI need the early draw-downs of state funding from Sport Ireland. And no wonder the FAI needed a €100,000 loan in April 2017; did 20% of the loan go to paying John Delaney’s credit card bill. All at the same time women players had to use toilets to change.
GiggidyGoo
I trust Revenue will go through these matters with a fine tooth comb. As well as his ‘ex’s ‘ lawyers
With my Financial Controller hat on
The draw downs of cash is very worrying
And this is an activity that value shouldn’t be the main talking point
Cash for what – for who
How often
How was it recorded
Why not take IOUs from petty cash
This level of employee should cover out of pockets themselves, and be reimbursed
An Executive Director should complete an expense claim, vouched ( receipts etc)
Have it approved by two Directors – ideally including the Treasurer
Submit it to Finance
And have it reimbursed thru payroll
And timely and as expeditiously as possible
Watch now
Delaney is going to end up being barred from acting as a Director
Cause if he was, and this applies to all the other Directors too btw, not managing expense claims appropriately, accurately and transparently,
Then they are all in a whole hape of trouble
Revenue and CAB are licking their lips I’d say
But they’ll all wait till GTz are done
It is bananas. I have a company credit card and if i took cash out on it, it would melt… and id be marched out the door pretty pronto. All my expenditure has to be followed up with receipts submitted within 14 days of the transaction. The only time I have ever used cash was at the christmas markets a few years back but that was my own cash and i claimed it back.
rasta man
Hands of Healy Rae
Without them rural Ireland would have nothing
They would even move relocate every half decent road to the power house of the economy
Papi
Is that a haiku?
rotide
“Remember Thierry Henry’s double hand ball? Remember Blatter making fun at Ireland’s expense, but followed later by ‘we will do something special for Ireland’?”
Yes I do. Clearly you don’t.
You clearly don’t remember the 6m euro payout for it either.
GiggidyGoo
All clearly accounted for? Or squandered? Pray tell.
Dub Spot
He needed to look his best on the radio. #marian #miriam
rotide
” Is this the sort of person we want at UEFA?”
Why do you think ‘we’ have any say in UEFA at all?
eoin
Stephen Roche’s Spanish holiday company allegedly €600,000 in debt, reports the Mail on Sunday.
Poor Gerald Kean, not having a good 2019. First, he’s booted out of his old offices for not paying his rent. And now, according to the Sunday Business Post, he’s being sued by the Revenue Commissioners. How the mighty have fallen. In fairness to him, he did tell the truth to the Charleton Tribunal last year, but can he bounce back from what looks like a series of financial difficulties.
Working now under the yoke that is The Insolvency Act is a daily reminder that I don’t have the patience and discipline to be a Solicitor
I test Bankruptcy and HC Insolvency far too much as it is
I’m too much of a maverick for the law
Dub Spot
RTE will give him a gig on the next season’s DWTS. He’s well got.
Plus, the panto season offers will be made soon.
His ex-wife is a hard-working legal type. I wonder how this is going down over the claret down the dining at the Inn’s…
Dub Spot
If it’s the SBP with a Gerald Kean story I’ll pop over to Centra for a free read…
eoin
Depressingly little in the Sunday papers about Julian Assange, Sunday press is supposed to give the big picture of the week’s events.
Guardian reports 70 British MPs have written to the minister overseeing Julian’s extradition asking that the Swedish sex crime allegations take precedence over the US hacking allegations. That seems fair.
Catherine costelloe
Michael Healey -Rae will regret slobbering over John Delaney this week! Dribbled an own goal.
GiggidyGoo
Surely Healey Rae can’t be bought?. Spend €66.74 at a filling station and get a recommendation? Green Shield stamps too?
Toe Up
Will he though? He couldn’t really be seen as more of a gombeen man outside of Kerry and he would appear to be bulletproof in the kingdom.
Catherine costelloe
Michael Healy-Rae at the Oireachtas committee, “Mr Delaney will be most welcome to Kerry. He would get what I would call the mother of all welcomes”. It’s rather hilarious in the circumstances…..perhaps Michael can give Delaney a job driving one of his diggers !
:) I assure you the nearest our international-class Arfur Daly will get to diggers is when he’s at press launches opening new future stadiums & facilities!
for the moment John will be busy working for Platini & later sliding up the poles at either FIFA or IOC.
the only thing I wonder about is how many tix for the CL final Healy-Rae manages to get his hands on
eoin
Great coverage in the NY Times yesterday and today about how your Android phone tracks you, and how US law enforcement is using that information to seek out suspects for crimes. I wonder if the Gardai in the Tipperary murder trial used Google’s “sensorvault” database?
Surely this is because the phone is linked to an email account? Otherwise how would they have any other personal details of the user?
You can also knock off the location history and delete your data at myactivity.google.com as I expect they are obliged to permanently remove upon request. Oh, and never use gmail of course.
Either way it is a quite patchy and not very reliable information for authorities to be arresting people on. As pointed out, all it would take is someone else to log into gmail once to throw it off.
The Tories face annihilation at the European and local elections next month.
And a total wipeout at the next general election.
Welcome back then to Nigel Farage – 65,000 members of his new Brexit party, £750,000 in donations swelling the coffers and already steaming up the opinion polls despite only being launched this week.
British politics has been changed forever by the Tories shambolic failure to deliver Brexit and Farage has them quaking in their boots.
It”s like Groundhog Day and this one will run and run.
Good times.
It really is the chickens coming home to roost
And even worse, they are seriously peed off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf11Pynnfk4
Barry and Diane, the Benidorm immigrants who left their Spanish home to support Farage want to stop people like them living in Benidorm!
You couldn’t make it up! https://twitter.com/Unnamedinsider/status/1117079408660054021
Gammontastic!
Don’t be so mean – they just want the Empire back – what’s not to love about that?
So the DUP intransigence will lead to a general election where Corbyn will be prime minister with a majority bolstered by the Scottish Nationalist Party. And no Assembly still in Northern Ireland.
Looks like we’ll have an Independence referendum in Scotland and a Border Poll in Ireland by the end of 2019. A reunified Ireland by Christmas.
And before that, we’ll have an Irish Language Act, Abortion, Gay Marriage, reform of Defamation Laws, reform of Blasphemy Laws and a few other reforms to bring Northern Ireland out of its backwater.
Thank you DUP, you’re the best.
…hope your analysis is right Eoin…the irony is that all you forecast would have come about (and quicker) in the event of a ‘no deal’…so…double thanks DUP…
More importantly- Is it possible that in the north, for the first time ever, the majority of people will vote along lines other than nationalism? If so, that will be a truly historic moment.
It is solidly remain after all and the DUP are not. The Alliance Party will be the big winners in that sort of scenario, because the UUP are also in the leave camp.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-party-leader-quits-after-antiislam-tweets-posted-from-her-account-a4097041.html
https://thebrexitparty.com/
Annunziata Rees-Mogg.
Former investment banker, stockbroker, lead writer of The Daily Telegraph and unsuccessful Tory candidate. Daughter off Times editor William Rees-Mogg and sister of Jacob Rees-Mogg. Educated at exclusive private school. Fox hunting enthusiast. Now standing as a Brexit candidate for Farage’s Brexit party.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/12/annunziata-rees-mogg-to-stand-as-mep-for-farages-brexit-party
Surprised she wasn’t in the TCD Hist as “auditrix”. Typecast again.
Bang of Ollie off you, lad.
First Nigel Farage.
Now Tiger Woods.
What a week for comebacks.
I’m impressed, though. First time I’ve heard of a rat trying to get back on board a sinking ship.
Brexit is dead.
So John Delaney is losing another of his three jobs because he’s out of the FAI having lost the confidence of the Board, players, supporters, the government.
At least he still has the loss-making furniture business in Tipperary and the debt-embattled property development company.
But what is this, he’s keeping the most lucrative football role, at UEFA. And I bet the €120,000 “fee” will increase substantially. How can he parachute into the most lucrative of international football roles when he is a disgrace at home?
“How can he parachute into the most lucrative of international football roles when he is a disgrace at home?”
you’re kidding, right?
it’s his raison d’être
he’ll slide very nicely up that particular greasy pole or the other ones at FIFA or IOC “families”
perfect candidate mix of Arfur Daly business acumen.
Just watch who makes it as MEP. Precedent a-plenty.
You’re missing the Sunday Times frontpage (at 7.30am Sunday).
Their lead story is about John Delaney’s €40,000 spending on his FAI credit card in the last six months of 2016.
“he used the FAI credit card to pay for duty-free purchases at airports, meals in his local pub in Wicklow and to make cash withdrawals of more than €6,000 in six months. Purchases on Delaney’s FAI credit card included €400 at a Hilfiger store, more than €500 on two visits to an executive dry-cleaning outfit, and a €226 bill from [shirtmaker] Thomas Pink”
This comes on top of his €360,000 salary, €3,000/mth rent and what else? Is this the sort of person we want at UEFA?
The Sunday Times is really going to town on the €40,000 credit card bill, detailing every steak dinner and a €66.74 purchase at Michael Healy-Rae’s filling station. Someone at the FAI really doesn’t like John! But that appeared to the case anyway when the revelations of the loan and rental accommodation were drip-dripped across the press (Mark Tighe’s Sunday Times).
If he hadn’t told friends yesterday he was stepping down from the FAI (but clinging onto his role at UEFA which will no doubt expand), then the credit card story today would drive him over the edge.
The next interesting policy issue is, what do you do with supranational organisations like FIFA, UEFA or indeed the European Broadcasting Union (which is arranging the Eurovision in Israel next month)? They’re effectively accountable to no-one.
And still nothing
Not a peep
Out’ve Deloittes
That type of credit card activity would most definitely suggest a solid ground for concern – possible misuse of the association’s funds, or at the very least, using high rate credit card finance to provide working capital / day-to-day cash flow
Enough to be a mention in their post- audit letter to the Board, and an item at their meeting to sign off
So it kinda has me wondering who the is the Sunday Times source
It’s as obvious as púc now
That the FAIs finance department was a joke
And the Board didn’t give a hoot
John Delaney ran the place like a family business
Yet Deloittes found nothing untoward
If I conducted my practice like that I’d be wiped out
And if the board I chair was as wishy washy about the competence of their financial reports I’d never hear the end of it
I’d say there must be great craic in there at the moment
Between Grant Thornton’s crowd and Deloittes
I said this already I know
But tis worth saying it again
Deloittes – as with any external Audit Report,
When it’s signed off
Provide a confirmation that they got access to all the records, satisfactory responses to their queries, and that accounts were kept in an orderly manner.
Clearly they didn’t look or ask
Or they turned a blind eye
From what I’ve learned over the past fortnight or so
It seems to me that Going Concern needs to be talked about.
I still can’t believe Deloittes have gotten off so lightly with that 2017 Audit Report
If one person is at it, and the rest of the board haven’t been flying red flags, that suggests to me that there may be more than one company credit card being flexed, or other things being written off/expensed or whatever. There may be a lot more than Delaney’ tribulations to come out of this.
I see there’s a call in cork for the stand named after his da to be boycotted. Wasn’t he something to do with finance in the FAI?
eoin, the ST Never came in. They usually send it.
Delaney should be dumped out of anything to do with soccer in this country. No role whatsoever. Somehow he’s a director of the Aviva Stadium itself.
Remember Thierry Henry’s double hand ball? Remember Blatter making fun at Ireland’s expense, but followed later by ‘we will do something special for Ireland’?
Well, if we can get to a stage where Delaney is dumped completely, then that ‘something special’ should be called in.
The Healy Rae’s can give him a job driving a digger perhaps
€40,000 credit card bill for six months, which includes thousands in cash withdrawals?
No wonder the FAI need the early draw-downs of state funding from Sport Ireland. And no wonder the FAI needed a €100,000 loan in April 2017; did 20% of the loan go to paying John Delaney’s credit card bill. All at the same time women players had to use toilets to change.
I trust Revenue will go through these matters with a fine tooth comb. As well as his ‘ex’s ‘ lawyers
With my Financial Controller hat on
The draw downs of cash is very worrying
And this is an activity that value shouldn’t be the main talking point
Cash for what – for who
How often
How was it recorded
Why not take IOUs from petty cash
This level of employee should cover out of pockets themselves, and be reimbursed
An Executive Director should complete an expense claim, vouched ( receipts etc)
Have it approved by two Directors – ideally including the Treasurer
Submit it to Finance
And have it reimbursed thru payroll
And timely and as expeditiously as possible
Watch now
Delaney is going to end up being barred from acting as a Director
Cause if he was, and this applies to all the other Directors too btw, not managing expense claims appropriately, accurately and transparently,
Then they are all in a whole hape of trouble
Revenue and CAB are licking their lips I’d say
But they’ll all wait till GTz are done
The plot thickens. https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/international-soccer/new-concerns-raised-around-fai-in-protected-disclosure-including-questions-about-john-giles-foundation-38012763.html
It is bananas. I have a company credit card and if i took cash out on it, it would melt… and id be marched out the door pretty pronto. All my expenditure has to be followed up with receipts submitted within 14 days of the transaction. The only time I have ever used cash was at the christmas markets a few years back but that was my own cash and i claimed it back.
Hands of Healy Rae
Without them rural Ireland would have nothing
They would even move relocate every half decent road to the power house of the economy
Is that a haiku?
“Remember Thierry Henry’s double hand ball? Remember Blatter making fun at Ireland’s expense, but followed later by ‘we will do something special for Ireland’?”
Yes I do. Clearly you don’t.
You clearly don’t remember the 6m euro payout for it either.
All clearly accounted for? Or squandered? Pray tell.
He needed to look his best on the radio. #marian #miriam
” Is this the sort of person we want at UEFA?”
Why do you think ‘we’ have any say in UEFA at all?
Stephen Roche’s Spanish holiday company allegedly €600,000 in debt, reports the Mail on Sunday.
https://extra.ie/2019/04/14/news/irish-news/stephen-roche-debts-e600000
Creditors alleging reckless trading.
Poor Gerald Kean, not having a good 2019. First, he’s booted out of his old offices for not paying his rent. And now, according to the Sunday Business Post, he’s being sued by the Revenue Commissioners. How the mighty have fallen. In fairness to him, he did tell the truth to the Charleton Tribunal last year, but can he bounce back from what looks like a series of financial difficulties.
He’ll get handed a few NEDs paying upwards of 60k
And that’ll see him out
Didn’t know about him leaving Fitz Square
Although I did wonder how it was that I hadn’t seen him about
…you should have been a celebrity solicitor instead of accountant Frillser…
Ah no
Working now under the yoke that is The Insolvency Act is a daily reminder that I don’t have the patience and discipline to be a Solicitor
I test Bankruptcy and HC Insolvency far too much as it is
I’m too much of a maverick for the law
RTE will give him a gig on the next season’s DWTS. He’s well got.
Plus, the panto season offers will be made soon.
His ex-wife is a hard-working legal type. I wonder how this is going down over the claret down the dining at the Inn’s…
If it’s the SBP with a Gerald Kean story I’ll pop over to Centra for a free read…
Depressingly little in the Sunday papers about Julian Assange, Sunday press is supposed to give the big picture of the week’s events.
Guardian reports 70 British MPs have written to the minister overseeing Julian’s extradition asking that the Swedish sex crime allegations take precedence over the US hacking allegations. That seems fair.
Michael Healey -Rae will regret slobbering over John Delaney this week! Dribbled an own goal.
Surely Healey Rae can’t be bought?. Spend €66.74 at a filling station and get a recommendation? Green Shield stamps too?
Will he though? He couldn’t really be seen as more of a gombeen man outside of Kerry and he would appear to be bulletproof in the kingdom.
Michael Healy-Rae at the Oireachtas committee, “Mr Delaney will be most welcome to Kerry. He would get what I would call the mother of all welcomes”. It’s rather hilarious in the circumstances…..perhaps Michael can give Delaney a job driving one of his diggers !
Or maybe Delaney can get a job as driver for Alan Kelly.
https://www.thejournal.ie/alan-kelly-delaney-2553118-Jan2016/
:) I assure you the nearest our international-class Arfur Daly will get to diggers is when he’s at press launches opening new future stadiums & facilities!
for the moment John will be busy working for Platini & later sliding up the poles at either FIFA or IOC.
the only thing I wonder about is how many tix for the CL final Healy-Rae manages to get his hands on
Great coverage in the NY Times yesterday and today about how your Android phone tracks you, and how US law enforcement is using that information to seek out suspects for crimes. I wonder if the Gardai in the Tipperary murder trial used Google’s “sensorvault” database?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html
Surely this is because the phone is linked to an email account? Otherwise how would they have any other personal details of the user?
You can also knock off the location history and delete your data at myactivity.google.com as I expect they are obliged to permanently remove upon request. Oh, and never use gmail of course.
Either way it is a quite patchy and not very reliable information for authorities to be arresting people on. As pointed out, all it would take is someone else to log into gmail once to throw it off.
https://www.phonearena.com/news/How-to-view-and-manage-your-location-history-on-Android_id68420
Stephen Roche? Did he spend all the money from the Calvita ads already? Budapest? Get’s madder, Ted.