Spot the misprint. Or is it just exaggeration.

irish1967

http://oceanfm.ie/news/2009/12/22/north-west-to-lose-rally-ireland-macsharry-claim/

irish1967

Sorry can't link it properly from the iPhone

deman

http://oceanfm.ie/news/2009/12/22/north-west-to-lose-rally-ireland-macsharry-claim/

There we go

homer simpson

wheres the misprint suppossed to be?

deman

homer_simpson wrote: »

wheres the misprint suppossed to be?

I thing you forgott two put in this smily - :P

:P

muffler

O dear

irish1967

Does it mean that the rally could single handedly save the country??

ednwireland

its been rumoured in various rally forums for months, nothing new there, being a senator he's probably just heard about it.
lots of complaining about hotel price rises
rumours are organisers want to move it to the east coat

irish1967

Ahem...... 50 BILLION ?????

Senna

irish1967 wrote: »

Ahem...... 50 BILLION ?????

It’s being claimed that secret plans to move the pretigious Rally Ireland event away from the North West to the East of the country could result in Ireland losing the entire event.
That’s according to Sligo Fianna Fail Senator, Marc MacSharry.
Senator MacSharry said today he had accurate information from both national and international sources that Motorsport Ireland have been working on a submission to have the next Rally Ireland event based in Dublin.
He claims such a move could result in the country losing the event altogether, which would represent a loss of 50 million euro to the economy.
The North West has succesfully hosted the previous two Rally Ireland events in November, 2007 and in January of this year - the first time ever Ireland had hosted a leg of the World Rally Championship.
Senator MacSharry insists such a winning formula should not be changed.

homer simpson

50 mill i see too? or maybe its all the muled wine im drinking!!!!:o

babaloushka

homer_simpson wrote: »

maybe its all the muled wine im drinking!!!!:o

Yes, that would do it alright - packs quite a kick
But I see 50 million too and I'm sober - maybe it was amended?

Senna

When your as rich as irish1967(all them Disassociated Press articles pay well), millions, billions....its all the same:D.

irish1967

Lol. I should have gone to specsavers!! It was billion though

irish1967

WTF. Reading here on my iPhone it still says

He claims such a move could result in the country losing the event altogether, which would represent a loss of 50 billion euro to the economy.

muffler

Too much festive cheer

Technique

I think a lot of the time the financial claims made about these sort of events are total pie in the sky and are never challenged. The Donegal Rally in their press release every year claim millions in benefit to the local economy. I'm sure local hotels, petrol stations and restaurants do okay for the weekend, but any other business will tell you that most people stay away from Letterkenny that weekend because of congestion, anti-social behaviour etc.

smashey

irish1967,

babaloushka

irish1967 wrote: »

WTF. Reading here on my iPhone it still says

He claims such a move could result in the country losing the event altogether, which would represent a loss of 50 billion euro to the economy.

Not too familiar with iPhones, but is there a cache on them? Could be proof that it really WAS 50 billion in the original article - not that I doubt you, I hasten to add

irish1967

Screen pic taken will show it when get to pc.

danniemcq

bet you didn't think the thread would spiral this way?

irlpic

I am sending this through my N95. Hope it works to show the 50 billion mobile version.

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irish1967

V I N D I C A T E D !!!!!

Thanks irl .. thats exactly how it looks on mine !!

May ye doubters be casteth down in to the firey depths of doubt and indecision oh ye of little faith in the power of the 67 !!

(Evil laugh inserted here !!)

(Jeez... think i better lay off the coffee for a few hours)

irlpic

:D:D:D:D

smashey

irish1967 wrote: »

May ye doubters be casteth down in to the firey depths of doubt and indecision oh ye of little faith in the power of the 67 !!

Pfft, my admin power is much more potent. Strange things have been known to happen to people's names, taglines and sigs on here.

irish1967

Oh yeah. Forgot bout that. Gulp!!