No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

I had an interesting chat last night, The group that I socialise with would have nearly 1600 acres , two of the women; who are widows, have 600 acres each and none of us have anyone to farm on, and we're the only ones that don't have family, it makes you think.

I would prefer if he paid his tax in Ireland.

Would they not sell up altogether?

Land is making good money and if there’s none of their children to take it over then it’ll probably be sold as soon as their time comes anyway so why not sell now and enjoy some of the money themselves.

When you look at farm investment nany choose to invest in Machinery or efficiency and will overinvest within there own farm often. While I always accept that you need to invest, have fencing sheds and other faculties I see a lot of investment justvto avoid paying tax.

People that buy land within a farming setup will often repeat the trick 2-3 time or more in there lifetime. You will see other with substantial holdings that will never buy another acre of land

Even at an auction I always bet on the lad that had been through the experience before rather than a lad with no experience of how you go about it.

That is a very true statement...loads of examples of it near me.

Fair enough, but this gaa move is pure populist bullsh1t to buy the JP is a great man legacy.

My father read in the paper that JP at fourteen years of age went to a bookmaker during the Cheltanham race week with 20k to put a bet on a horse. The bookmaker had to phone up his father at home in Ireland before he'd take the bet.

Hey there, I'm looking at putting the old house and farm electricity bill onto my own dwelling house just to have the one bill.

Anyone have any idea how to do this? I'm struggling to figure it out but I doubt it's difficult.

Its his money to give away, he earned it and has done nothing illegal. Not sure what to be cynical of.

Everyone try’s to pay as little tax as legally possible, if you were at his level you’d be doing the same too.

As other posters have said he knows where his donations go and fair play to him for it he’s helped an awful lot of people across the country. You can’t guarantee where your tax is going to be spent by the government so the argument it would be for the betterment of Ireland is negligible.

Ireland operated at a surplus of €12 billion last year and somehow or country is no better off in general.

More power to JP he’ll be missed when he’s gone around the country.

No, they'd piss it up against the wall like a lot of what you and I give them. Fxck them, and more power to him if he can avoid giving them more to waste.

Fair play to him if I was him I'd think about being an exile. Being an exile is no joke either revenue do follow up on it as I know someone who is one.

The county boards must be delighted with the funds and I hope they spend it wisely not moving cash around to support a vanity stadium.

Thanks 4 that clarification.I agree completely re those that have purchasing experience.Have purchased a few small pieces of land over last 30 years and dealt with 4 different auctioneers both at auction and private treaty and surly its a "learned experience"

People who have not been involved in auctions before are always nervous about trying to get a bid in at there limit. When they get within about 10% of there limit they tend to hesitate and either slow there bidding or wait for the auctioneer to reduce the bids.

An ould lads said to me years ago bid hard and hope you succeed on the ''nod of the hammer''.

He explained it that if you are up against a bidder that has been there before he virtually know your limit when you do that and may bid extra to knock you off at your limit even though its slightly above his limit.

By bidding hard you might win or lose on the bid slighy below your limit as you hit his or his next bid will exceed his

Fair play to JP. That money will most likely keep the generator running in our club all winter. I'm heavily involved in my home club and tbh it's a slog to keep the show on the road. We're a rural club playing senior football and a b&c team as well as underage. Great numbers as the appetite for football is ferocious but there's a lot of work done behind the scenes to keep facilities etc in order.

The way he stipulated the money is spent means its guaranteed to go to grass roots rather than getting wasted at county board level. A true gael 👏