Garrett- Fitzgerald's government deprived communities and voluntary clubs of the possibility of raising significant finance by greedily grabbing any floating money for the National Lotto ,against whose prizes no Club can hope to compete,and the proceeds of which are now largely offset against operations which have nothing to do with the promotion of sporting and community facilities which were originality touted as the sole raison d'etre of the Lotto.
Only a small proportion of the monies generated are redistributed in the forms of grants to sporting and community organisations now and local political fir is mna breags line up to claim credit for these allocations to individual clubs.
I am not confining my disdain for this cunning con to Fine Gaelers only but also include all parties in Government since Garrett the God got his marching orders from a pissed electorate.
Anyhow the establishment of the National Lotto left numerous Clubs up the Swannee without a paddle when it came to fund raising and clubs like my own had to go house to house to collect monies from persons of goodwill to make up a prize fund for prizes much less attractive than those offered by the National Lotto for club lottos to keep the show on the road.
But more con jobs perpetrated by cowardly and gutless politicians in screwing every last cent from a docile populace to satisfy their European buddies has significantly reduced the amount of spare cash available to support voluntary Clubs.
Not only this but such is the frequency of theft of the new breed of thief at large (and semingly immune from apprehension) that along for example with having to build concrete bunkers to surround diesel tanks,those people living in fear as prisoners in their own houses and with the financial wherewithal to so do are installing secure metal gates to keep the thieves out.
Hereabouts they are called "Fuck off "gates by some and one definite effect of their installation is to discourage neighbours from calling at all, thus contributing to the break down of rural society
Our club has suffered a signified decline in support because of these gates , the time it takes to get admission to the houses and because it is the situation that people do make a prisoner of a Euro and have to,such is the hateful effects of the asteroid the fir is mna Breaga have imposed on everybody to keep the German bondholder rich and happy.
Well now there is a new twist to the tale.They have started to rob the metal gates .Last weekend some person or persons cut through the metal hinges of a sizable metal gate where we played football years ago (Jack Conway's field ) made off with the gates.
Do I believe they will be recovered.I do not.Am I outraged .Yes I am.LIke many others I believe that this Government would be better deployed re assigning the Gardai to protect their citizens rather than have them hiding in foliage trapping decent citizens and criminalising and screwing as much money fron their pockets for such a range of motoring offences that nobody could be expected to keep abreast of them
Complimentss of Leo the Lip.
In the meantime I say "Bad Cess "to the politicians who betrayed us and specifically to the thieves who prey on us and leave us living in fear,
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