€30m for GAA but poor suffer

Recently Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore visited Cork. He met with GAA representatives at Pairc Uí Chaoimh where he promised to make representations on their behalf to acquire State funding. Which is the only success story of the Labour party . He got it, all of €30m.

It beggars belief that in the wake of a savage successive budgets, which were presided over by Mr Gilmore, that he would seek to acquire taxpayers money on behalf of the GAA, for what is essence a recreational activity as distinct from, our older and disabled residents surviving the winter, in food poverty, and fuel poverty. Over a third of our young population live in poverty. Grieving families have lost the bereavement grant, sick and dying children have had their medical cards stripped, the elderly are shivering in their homes or on hospital trolleys and Mr Gilmore et al are funding a private stadium which has already been gifted public land at a cost of €16m.

First we bail out the banks now we divert money to sports stadiums from the pockets of the poor, the elderly and the squeezed middle income earners .