We were fairly strapped for cash in the mid 80′s if i recall correctly and yet, per capita, Ireland gave one of the largest donations to Live-Aid…

I think it would work if the receiving ‘people in need’ were Irish charity’s & the money was being kept to do good in our own country, I don’t think it would work if the money was going to overseas charity’s regardless of how needy they also are, charity begins at home.

I agree with a previous poster. I live in Dublin City, and visited Cork City at the weekend. There is an absolute epidemic of homelessness and poverty in this country right now, and I’d love to help them with something, because the charities are close to breaking point, if not past it.

But for some reason, Irish people see needy people overseas as “poor, desperate, God love them etc”. But when it comes to Irish people being needy it’s a case of “lazy feckers”, “there’s loads of jobs” etc.

I think it could work if done properly and people were confident their money would be used for the right purposes.

I think it would as Irish people would tend to give more money in hard times than people would expect.

The problem is we are all in need

yes i think so it will work if the money goes straight to the irish charities and not to the chiefs pockets that run the charities

I think the money just isn’t there at the moment.

Half the country are people in need so who would get the money..

Charity fatigue at this stage. So, no.

So, the last Telethon in 2007 raised €7.5m…..a quick calculation on just TD’s basic salary (93k x 166) comes out at just over €15m (excluding any of the myriad of “expenses” added)…..so, if TD’s took a 50% pay cut…..it would met the same as the last Telethon (€7.5m)…and we wouldn’t have to watch the self obsessed cringeworthy RTE production……..SIMPLES!!

I dint think a people in need would work at this time, not with costs rising in fuel, oil, gas, electricity, being taxed to death and having pay cuts. People are squeezed as it is. If those on €100,000 + salaries dont givea a damn, and probably wont get involved then why should the rest of the country be expected to. Havent we bailed out enough thus far.

It would be an irrelevancy. There is a virtual telethon every day in this country as the government continues to pour billions of euro into zombie banks. People don’t need charity, they are entitled to fairness. Instead of another circus what’s needed is for the system to be changed.

I think it would work. But the troika would want us to off load it.

I heard the song on the radio today and it reminded me of the people in need telethon…woooo come on everybody!!;)

The sad thing about the so called ‘people in need’ is that they are are neither the long term unemployed nor the low wage workers .

Didn’t we just have a Telethon recently ??? Yeah,sure we did,there was lots of clowns on TV,people saying and doing stuff they wouldn’t normal do,and lots of money was given away.

Oh wait,no that was the General Election!!!

no

I dint think a people in need would work at this time, not with costs rising in fuel, oil, gas, electricity, being taxed to death and having pay cuts. People are squeezed as it is. If those on €100,000 + salaries dont givea a damn, and probably wont get involved then why should the rest of the country be expected to. Havent we bailed out enough thus far.