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ST VINCENT DE Paul has announced that it has cancelled a cheque it gave to a young man to secure his college place after he posted a picture of it with a pint on social media.
A spokesman for the charity apologised for the incident on Radio Kerry today, after the man posted the image of himself with the cheque on Instagram with the caption: “That’s me sorted for the Listowel Races”.
The man received the cheque after telling the society’s education conference that he needed funding to go to college, but feared losing his place if he didn’t pay his fees on time.
St Vincent de Paul regional president for Cork and Kerry, Christy Lynch, told Radio Kerry that the society usually pays money directly to educational bodies.
However, the charity issued the cheque directly to the man instead, as it believed the issue was a time-sensitive matter and could be addressed more quickly if it did so.
“We have a system where we have an educational committee who decides who gets what and how much they get,” Lynch said.
“The conference, at the time, made the decision that they made and gave him what he was looking for.”
He also said the individual involved had “a rush of blood to the head”, but that he and his family were now “very upset” over the incident, which caused anger locally.
“It was just a silly thing to do,” Lynch said, before confirming that the cheque has now been cancelled and apologising on behalf of the charity.
He said: “I’ll tell you what, he’s not gone to the races anyway…and all I can say is that if people are upset on behalf of the region, I apologise for any upset this has caused.”
Lynch added that the individual involved will have to re-apply for the money, and that such an incident has never happened to the charity in the region before.
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It’s not that they’re sitting on their hands… It’s that they haven’t an iota how to solve it.
@Louis Jacob: who does?
@Disco Inferno: SF do, give everyone everything for free, magic money tree will provide
@Disco Inferno: Hard to tell. FF/FG are the only governance we’ve ever known.
@Disco Inferno: Quite simple really, isn’t rocket science, if they (gov) can put in MUP as in a minimum price on a product IE alcohol, then they can easily put in a maximum price on any product. Simple.
@Martin Kenny: you mean the free mismanaged 10 billion this year or the 11 8 billion last year… Go Figure free money!!!
@Dave C: Unfortunately this is all poor Martin has to go on about. FFG have had plenty of magic trees lately
@Dave C: What happens when the producers of all the goods we import, whose profits would be impacted by such a policy, decide it’s just not worth selling into Ireland anymore?
@Martin Kenny: you mean the magic money tree which sprouted an additional €.4 billion to advance FFG’s military build up in their aims to abandon our neutrality???
@Louis Jacob: I don’t think it’s the Government’s job. The market is supposed to adjust itself. When a price is unacceptably high, stop accepting it and stop buying those items. Do without or search around for someone selling what you need for a price you’re OK with. I can’t believe anybody wants the Government micro-managing the economy.
I used to regularly buy Pepsi Max. Then when Coca Cola stated it had to increase its prices to cover rising costs, ALL the soft drinks manufacturers piled on. Now if I want cola I buy Xero Cola @ 75c a bottle, not €2.89 for Pepsi Max.
You really would have to wonder how people keep on voting for the same FFG clowns repeatedly. 100 years of corruption and one scandal after another. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
@Daniel Gilroy: Its Fianna Fáil and Provisional Fianna Fáil, Like Coke or Pepsi.
@Daniel Gilroy: As opposed to the naive and wonderful sf hopefuls?
Spinn Fein moaning again, Paul must have the day off…
the opposition are all mouth so they are.
@John Deane: The opposition are all mouth. Whatever next?
@John Deane: They’re supposed to be.
@John Deane: I’m surprised you can spell opposition.
Well eamon Ryan made it very clear today they won’t be doin anything about energy prices. Except for get renewables on the go. Which he’s hugely failing on so far. Again saying the line that they buy energy 18 months kn advance so prices will still be high for that long. Even tho when Ukraine invasion kicked off they jacked up the prices instantly.
See David the landlord Terry picking up for the government
It’s as simple as this, All the other parties have had a chance and failed. By giving SF a chance to see if they are what they say, and if they fail,we can truly say that they are all the same.
This so called government simply are in free fall…..Housing,Health,Childcare,Household,Rent,Tourism…it goes on. JC
Well, we do pay a high proportion of taxes, it’s about time we ALL see some return on them.
SF populist sh#te give everything for free policy. I’ll vote for them just to prove it if they get in..
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