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Topic: Players heading for the US of A
Bannerboy7
(41 Posts)
Posted: 30-Jun-2012 00:04
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Is it me or is there a greater number of intercounty players heading out to Boston this year? Connaughton, Lavin , Lee and Dessie Dolan to name a few. It seems the minute they are knocked out of the championship, the American clubs come calling. I can understand that in current times, that the chance to earn a few bob cant be sniffed at, but can those players walk back into the changing room next year and be taken seriously. Also, what is the story as regards insurance. I see ur man Connaughton broke his ankle after 5 minutes over there.
cowpat
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 02:54
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Dessie Dolan is a teacher no? So he would be getting paid during the summer? So would be getting paid on top of that while he is in Boston?
ProjX
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 11:20
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Originally posted by cowpat:
Dessie Dolan is a teacher no? So he would be getting paid during the summer? So would be getting paid on top of that while he is in Boston?

Correct, the Irish taxpayer is paying for Dessie Dolan to play football in the US for the summer.

Surely it is time to pay these people for when they work only.
Kobe Shefflin
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 11:36
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Originally posted by ProjX:
Correct, the Irish taxpayer is paying for Dessie Dolan to play football in the US for the summer.Surely it is time to pay these people for when they work only.

The salary is stretched out. It is not "extra pay". Teachers would be getting this money anyway whether they were to get paid more during teaching months and nothing during the summer, or the current situation which is a lot easier. There's no need to start another "public sector abuse thread" as there have been plenty.
An Carta Bui
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 13:47
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Originally posted by cowpat:
Dessie Dolan is a teacher no? So he would be getting paid during the summer? So would be getting paid on top of that while he is in Boston?

Iam sure that these players will declare any income received for Revenue purposes
ProjX
(726 Posts)
Posted: 30-Jun-2012 18:58
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Originally posted by An Carta Bui:
Iam sure that these players will declare any income received for Revenue purposes

I presume all teachers who work during their incredibly long break will declare all monies received if they work during the school holidays.
ProjX
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 19:06
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Originally posted by Kobe Shefflin:
The salary is stretched out. It is not "extra pay". Teachers would be getting this money anyway whether they were to get paid more during teaching months and nothing during the summer, or the current situation which is a lot easier. There's no need to start another "public sector abuse thread" as there have been plenty.

Of the 52 weeks in a year, teachers work maybe 30-32 of those weeks.

Of those weeks they work, they finish at 4ish each day?

Based on those numbers, the top most salary a teacher should receive is 23k per year?
yankeelad
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 19:18
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Originally posted by An Carta Bui:
Iam sure that these players will declare any income received for Revenue purposes
Pay for play is what those boys are doing and this is common knowledge on both sides of the pond for years.Good luck to the players for making a buck out of it and it would be a damned fool that would turn it down.Days of God Bless the health lads are long gone and no loss.
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Hitch
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 19:41
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Originally posted by yankeelad:
Pay for play is what those boys are doing and this is common knowledge on both sides of the pond for years.Good luck to the players for making a buck out of it and it would be a damned fool that would turn it down.Days of God Bless the health lads are long gone and no loss.

It can be dangerous though Yank ...remember the Keady affair?
greendolphin
(2,177 Posts)
Posted: 30-Jun-2012 19:57
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All the years I pucked a sliotar around Louisiana and Florida nobody paid me. B@stards.
Blanco
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 20:01
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Originally posted by Hitch:
It can be dangerous though Yank ...remember the Keady affair?

I'd say none of the Galway lads remember it anyway.
yankeelad
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 20:10
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Originally posted by Hitch:
It can be dangerous though Yank ...remember the Keady affair?
Do I ever and sad to say it was one of your fellow countymen who done the dirty deed on Tony.Everyone in GAA circles in NY that time knew damn well what was going on but everyone on both sides turned the blind eye as there was plenty of Keady,s to go around at the time.The problem was Galway were top dogs at the time and Tipp were about to play them in the championship when a wise Tipp buisnessman in NY decided on his own Tipp would have a better chance of winning if Keady was not on the field.He was right.Tipp won on the strength of it but his buisness in NY went west as most Irish guys do not mind getting their ass kicked on a level playing field.The word went out very swiftly in the GAA circles that this mans buisness was to be avoided.End of the day Hitch I always say it is nice to be nice because bad things have a very strange way of happening to those that are not.
South Limerick Referee
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 20:36
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Not necessarily. He may not be paid for the summer.

Originally posted by ProjX:
Correct, the Irish taxpayer is paying for Dessie Dolan to play football in the US for the summer.Surely it is time to pay these people for when they work only.
yankeelad
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Posted: 30-Jun-2012 20:53
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Originally posted by greendolphin:
All the years I pucked a sliotar around Louisiana and Florida nobody paid me. B@stards.
Pretty slack of you Dolph.Should have known to head for the Eastcoast,Boston & NY is where the money is what do those swamp tinkers know about hurling and Gaelic football when they are out trying to assisanate their dinner with an AK47 every day.
greendolphin
(2,177 Posts)
Posted: 30-Jun-2012 23:52
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Because for 12 months of the year I dont have to shovel snow from my driveway :) Just back from a cookout, tasty venison. You would of loved it, steroid free 'n all.
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