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They are easy spot ....... 🙄

They tend to forget how the sporting organisation that controls football was run by someone with a similar attitude to other peoples money also.......

Maybe he watched the Netflix series Sick Note, a dark comedy about a guy faking cancer cos of the benefits it brought him …. 🧐

I'm assuming that this is some reference to John Delaney.

"Look over there", in other words.

Or else, some playground stuff about how if you criticise the GAA, its culture, supporters or players, you must be a soccer or rugby fan.

Certainly not the case here, plenty of problems and arseholes in soccer and rugby, John Delaney, Brendan Mullin (allegedly), old boys networks etc. But what has allegedly happened with this GAA player is particularly bad.

IME the clowns who fall for such scams often have obtained their money through cute hoorism and duckin and divin. They wouldn't piss on the average person if they were on fire but their ego and social capital gets a great boost from handing over 100k to a GAA hero who claims to have cancer.

Dessie Ellis did time, but I think that might have been for bomb making. Liam Cosgrave jnr did time.

It takes a certain mentality to turn someone doing a good turn for someone who they believed to be in serious trouble into cute hoorism!

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fair play to Simon Carswell, he’s like a dog with a bone with this story

apparently the scam artist was doing this for at least 10 years.

I stand corrected. He did of course admit to taking illegal payments from Frank Dunlop on behalf of property developers.

Gambling you would have to assume now.

From RTE, no less;

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0217/1357356-dj-carey-debt/

Very unusual for RTE to publish details of someone's private financial dealings unless there is fairly clear evidence of illegality or corruption.

No, you will be severely punished. Justice kinda warped in this country.

I'd say the RTE legal beagles have cleared that.

Sickening, what is **** point of paying back your loans when the likes of < admin snip> don't have to bother paying back anything.

The taxpayers bail out AIB and still own 56.8% of it and yet they appear to act without an ounce of social responsibility , selling off small loans to companies who then hound people for the money while deciding to let <admin snip > off with paying nothing back.

What's the difficulty about not mentioning his name ffs! As you say we all know who it is but it would be mad for any news outlet to publish his name before he is arrested and charged.

As much as I think he's after **** up his sporting legacy i think it's the thing that could ultimately get him out of all this

A lot of documentarie makers out there who prey on this kind of stuff. Serial killers been glammed up ffs

I bet the 60k is still outstanding too.

And you wonder why we are crucified with intetest rates.

Parasite.

I would have said its in the public interest. After all AIB was bailed out and owned with taxpayer money. If the taxpayer gave him a personal bailout of 9.4million then the public have a right to know.

That aside you would wonder what strings were pulled for him that he got a 99.6% write down on his debts, its astonishing and we all paid for it.

That's a pretty stunning write down that <admin snip> got on his debt to AIB. Whoever approved that write down needs to be held accountable. That is truly scandalous. How in god's name did he accrue debts to that level. The RTE article doesn't give an indication of illegality but morally it's repugnant that someone can pay just 60k having owed 9.5m.

I loved <admin snip> for what he did on the pitch. An absolute genius but this is outrageous. He should have been declared bankrupt like any other mere mortal would be made to do. As we own the majority stake in the bank it is us the public who have picked up the tab for his 9.5m bill. Sickening.

It was the noughties where this was build up. Credit was easy to access.. Letters with loan approval were being send out every couple of months to ordinary people. If you were running a business money was easily accessed. Everything was about expansion, you have walked into the bank manager demanded another, 100k......250k...... or a million or more and threatened to go elsewhere if they did not stump up.

In some cases it as a complete smoke screen and it all went up in smoke with nothing to back it up.

Remember a lot of expansion was based on leased offices, building's machinery and vehicles