JP McManus to donate 1 million to each county. Greatest gesture in the GAA ever? What's your take?

32 million just like that, obviously the man is loaded but this is an incredible act of generosity and will make huge differences to GAA clubs all over Ireland .

Don’t see some of the other billionaires like Larry Goodman , John Magner giving anything to anyone , Denis O Brien give plenty to the FAI to be fair but nothing of this level .

Great gesture and he will probably not make comment. There are many charities that receive equally substantial contributions from him on condition of anonymity.

Got to love those Swiss taxes, nice gesture all the same, plenty of people don't pay a cent in tax but still give nothing back.

But he does dodge paying tax by living in Switzerland, don't think we need a brigade to figure that one out!

i was informed by a local in the past - sports club asked for donations in the past and got nothing but maybe they were wrong .

larry Goodman definitely wouldn’t give anything , he doesn’t want to pay the farmers or the taxman and the conditions in his meat factories misfortunes from Brazil , Latvia etc endure for minimal wage is a utter disgrace .

Tax free.

I'm with the tax dodger brigade.

I'd far prefer to see him paying taxes like a normal citizen rather than being a tax exile.

We'd all love to pick and choose where our tax money is spent but it's a much fairer system where we democratically elect a government to distribute our taxes.

I don’t like tax evasion but he’s probably giving the same money back into the Irish system albeit to stuff he’s interested in be that many charities in the mid west and indeed all over ireland and he obviously has a huge interest in GAA and horse racing luckily enough for those sports . The Irish government squander so much money he’s probably doing a better job .

Compare that to Larry Scrooge pay no one Goodman and his Luxembourg tax evasion model .

I can't argue against the government wasting money, but at least they are the people we have elected. How much does JP McManus waste?

How much of this money going to the GAA will be wasted?

For counties like Letrim,Carlow that's some donation.

What's he going to do if Limerick manage the famous 5 in a row

That's some insult to the man comparing him to hutch.

Throwing crumbs. I suggest you take a tour of the Midwest I'm not from Limerick. The amount he has given the hospital for example, the various equipment etc he has funded for it, has funded significant amount into facilities in UL just to name a few.

My first thought was how many of those 32 counties will waste the money and show how unprepared they are to do some long term planning?

It will be interesting to come back to this in 10 years time and see if many of the counties used the money with any level of foresight and astuteness. Or alternatively filtered away the money on white elephants etc

my reading of it is that €0 stays with the county boards, its to be passed on in full to camogie, ladies football, hurling and gaelic football clubs.

So the only white elephant you might get is a fence or something at a club ground.

Pretty sure it will have to be spread evenly to every club like last time.

Limerick GAAs tweet would suggest that is the method again this time.

32 million big ones !

To be honest, a great way of charitable giving. Would be about 25K to each club in my own county. Would be mostly spent on equipment, transport, gear etc.. If you donated a similar amount to a large charity, how much would go on salaries, admin etc?

You sound like one of those knobs that go into libraries with the camera phone out shouting and roaring !

But he does live here, built the largest gaff seen in Ireland for a 100 years.

Personally do not believe someone in Shannon is clocking him in and out on a daily basis.

Actually everything in your post is wrong, how did you manage to do that!

I literally have no opinion on the man. Couldn’t care less.

but I value that in a democracy, people should have the right to do what the fûck they want with their own cash….

if he wants to buy an umbrella and a hot dog for every citizen here, let him at it.

he wants to fund the GAA, it’s a democracy, he should be allowed.

He’s dammed if he does, dammed if he doesn’t…

he’s a billionaire…. If he wants to bankroll GAA clubs, athletics, soccer, cricket, snooker, basketball, so what ?

Me personally, if I had his wealth I’d probably invest in other areas of sport closer to my heart and interests… and to be honest if certain people saw fit to criticise me for spending / giving away my money how I wished, I’d just be 🖕🏻😵‍💫🖕🏻

If his human rights record is clean, the money actually makes it to clubs I am fine with it. Should be matched by the state in an ideal world.