Goal chief attacks Irish govt on millions sent to agency accused of corruption

(oh yes there’s.. #More! And more and more, and more and more!# - as RIP’n Joe Dolan used to sing) – Now ye hafta get this bit really hard between the teeth... The campaign is geared to customers of ESSO/BP, asking them to stop buying petrol (gas) or diesel from those garages. Full stop... STOP! No more and more anymore for Esso/BP. The one-day campaigns not to buy from these garages fell far short of the target. So now the targeted going is for... get this bit really hard... is for full years and longer “No Buying from Esso/BP garages; buy from cheaper pricing garages” – after all, they deliver the same fuel, don’t they? - but at cheaper prices. The reason?? Esso/BP will see no one is buying from them; they will see their customers buying from better value garages. In response, Esso/BP will drop their prices; the cheaper garages, in competition, will drop their prices in return too and so on and on, until at last, WE THE CUSTOMERS and not Esso/BP set the true value. That will help John O’Shea’s case and will also make more pennies available for all charities. Pass the message on to all you can. This is us, the people, all going to work for the whole world, which includes each of us as individuals – a force to be reckoned with en masse world-wide. ****Pass the message all around: DON’T BUY FROM ANY ESSO/BP/SHELL outlet**** Let them know we know that we, the customers, are the deciding people, not them in Esso/BP/Shell. John O'Shea has a case against corruption. We have too.

Funnily enough, as an aside and as a conjunction to this thing about corrupting by greedy people of the small wealth of insignificant people donating to charity in significant numbers, might I mention the campaign launched against big oil companies which are ripping off the whole world? Think of garages which dispense petrol (gas) and diesel to you to use in your motor car. (ok, I hope you've got that bit?) Now think Esso, think BP - both hugely dominating the re-fuelling stations and courtyards.(Got that bit too?)... Now think of smaller companies – in Ireland think Applegreen, Topaz, Tesco etc., which charge lower prices for your gallon or litre than Esso and BP (you know similar in the USA, GB and Aus etc...) Are yez with me? Keep thinking significant numbers (More...)

I got a great m’Wahaha belly laugh ow’ruv m’Dublinjas’ comment! For m’Bwana Township, I admit my research is a few years old. But, c’mere, c’mere people... What’s the latest goss??? Is it m’Deemessers Bono-go-an’-Geld’orf charity dat’s bringing real relief to our unfortunate African fellow m’descendants datI should divert m’Concern’ed contributions to? Nah, m’dont tinkso or else I'd go bananas. Ah, but be shure to give what you can... some of it will get to relieving the miseries. “A penny for the Black Babies???... Anyone? Anyone?” Please do give pennies or cents... That should do it... ye can’t buy a rocket launcher for a penny but starving babies will eat of its ‘hay’pennies and fardings’.

I think the reason the Irish Govt ignored talk of corruption is because they do business in the same way themselves.

It's reminiscent of the lavish lifestyles of the british government ministers living off the bones of the Irish people during the famine years.

WORSE THAN THAT jacers,news broke today that they have taken to SMOKING the aids/hiv medication in Africa. (I'm glad I left! m'Bwana). ............Your percentages for funds absorbed by Charity admin/salaries etc.,seem remarkably LOW and acceptable compared to those I have come across.You might like to look again. Slainte!

I agree with O’Shea’s advice that we in Ireland, the world’s 7th most generous nation in the world (USA is 18th) despite our economic ills, should stop all donations like Sweden and Germany have until there is a thorough satisfactory accounting system in place. Mind you, it would also mean that O’Shea’s GOAL organisation would suffer too meantime. In certain research I did some years ago, I discovered that Concern, another charity was the best to donate to – they absorb less than 17 cent out of each euro donated for administration costs. Others, like O’Shea’s GOAL, use up over 20 cent per euro. If more cents of each euro we give to charity is lost to corruption, what is left for the actual cause? Time to think with our math heads and not our bled hearts.