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Volunteer making 3k a week caught with cocaine

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  • #2
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    3k a week? He was making €150k a year and turns up to court in a scruffy adidas hoody? Something odd about that.


  • #3
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I think a suit would have been more appropriate


  • #4
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    So much money he didn't know what to do with it? Emm.. How about saving it?


  • #5
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    What about the well? Did he fall in?


  • #6
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    TallGlass wrote: »
    So much money he didn't know what to do with it? Emm.. How about saving it?

    Celtic Tiger! Probably took it In his hot tub on the decking


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  • #7
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    Bless him.


  • #8
    highgiant1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭highgiant1985


    sexmag wrote: »
    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/volunteer-earning-3000-a-week-bought-cocaine-as-he-didnt-know-what-to-do-with-money-37296320.html

    Anyone else curious how a 22 year old volunteer was making 3k a week?

    Story doesn't mention his previous profession other than he is now a mechanic and implies that he had the drugs for his own use as he had so much money he didn't know what else to do with it

    just read the same article and thought the same! When I saw the headline I thought surely it has to be he was making 3k a week from dealing but the articles clear the claim made was the only reason he bought the cocaine was he was earning 3k a week and didn't know what to do with the money....

    Has to be a misunderstanding or mistake surely. if not, f*** me I've choose the wrong career!


  • #9
    clintondaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭clintondaly


    Try_harder wrote: »
    Celtic Tiger! Probably took it In his hot tub on the decking

    With the Prosecco pulled pork and rocket salad


  • #10
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Kids today clearly don't know how to party


  • #11
    Mookie Blaylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Mookie Blaylock


    Did lassie save him when he fell into the well ?


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  • #12
    zom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    Read the article people: "was now working as a mechanic" !!


  • #13
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,548 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    super_furry wrote: »
    3k a week? He was making €150k a year and turns up to court in a scruffy adidas hoody? Something odd about that.


    But with not paying taxes it was as good as a PAYE job of circa €300k a year so he was clearing more a year than Michael D :D


  • #14
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    For 2,600 €5’s a month, you can help keep a drug dealer in the lifestyle he’s accustomed to.


  • #15
    highgiant1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭highgiant1985


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    Kids today clearly don't know how to party

    I don't know... i think this guy/girl partied too hard... :D

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1037975284748824582


  • #16
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Does 'volunteer with homeless charity" mean selling drugs to homeless people?


  • #17
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Your Face wrote: »
    Does 'volunteer with homeless charity" mean selling drugs to homeless people?

    No it means his solicitor told him to start volunteering before the court case came up so that he'd be able to paint himself as a decent member of society.


  • #18
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Your Face wrote: »
    Does 'volunteer with homeless charity" mean selling drugs to homeless people?

    sounds good for mitigation...


  • #19
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Ah well...


  • #20
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Bolloxolgy I've two jobs and don't make that much a week ,
    Who knew a volunteer for a homeless service would be on €156,000 pa .


    WTF
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #21
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    Lads he was obviously shifting the coke like it was going out of fashion. No way he was making 3k a week otherwise


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  • #22
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    Lads he was obviously shifting the coke like it was going out of fashion. No way he was making 3k a week otherwise

    But the article didn’t say he was a dealing. and that’s not the case here.

    Finance?


  • #23
    Raging_Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭Raging_Ninja


    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    Lads he was obviously shifting the coke like it was going out of fashion. No way he was making 3k a week otherwise

    Do you not remember the charity scandals/scams that were all the rage in 2016 and 2017? Where momey being collected was mainly being spent on salaries, bonuses and "business trips"?


  • #24
    mynamejeff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    wonder if his free legal aid was contested ?


  • #25
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Reminds me of Gizmo Coughlin.

    A fella who I went school with, an odd looking man from Gortnaguna.


  • #26
    KevinCavan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 612 ✭✭✭KevinCavan


    Sign me up as a volunteer


  • #27
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    super_furry wrote: »
    No it means his solicitor told him to start volunteering before the court case came up so that he'd be able to paint himself as a decent member of society.

    That partly explains why there's so many "homeless charities". Every couple of weeks there seems to be a new one mentioned in the news. I always assumed it was some chancer looking to make an easy buck by setting themselves up in a €100k a year (€200k if they also put their name over the door) job as the head of a charity. But I suppose solicitors need somewhere for their clients to "volunteer" as the offices of real charities must have become a little crowded.


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