Irish Corruption Is Funny

[@DINKL8ERG]

Ah sure look, the money was only resting in his account.

[@Thatonepringle9]

father ted reference🤣

[@scottguitar28]

That poor child was supposed to be in Lourdes!

[@Thatonepringle9]

@@scottguitar28 careful now!

[@hermionegardener3796]

He was just holding it for a friend.

[@Chromosome999]

We all loved father Ted tho hahaha

[@eoindylan]

So, my water supply was cut off by the owner of the house next door aug 22. I tried to get a new connection. Uisce Eireann ( the water company set up by the government and fully funded by the Irish tax payer to the tune of billions each year) would not speak to me. Feb 24 I still have no connection!!!! Really. I got a TD (member of parliament) to contact Uisce Eireann who promptly replied to him saying I had been offered a new connection and turned it down because I would not pay for the plumbing on my property. A completely made up story. You think that's bad? There's more. Now Revenue are penalising me for having a vacant property by charging me a vacant property tax. They say not having a water supply is no reason for the house to be vacant. Yet it would be illegal for me to rent it out with no water supply. Why will revenue not accept having no water as a reason for a house to be vacant. Because the government who set up Uisce Eireann do not want revenue recording how many houses do not have a water supply because that would expose what a catastrophic failure Uisce Eireann is.

[@irishterminator.]

How could your neighbour cut off your water supply? Surely you have your own water connection because how could you receive a water bill?

[@eoindylan]

@@irishterminator. We don't pay for water in Rep of Ireland.The water system is antiquated and there are many houses that have a shared supply with multiple houses. We will eventually be paying for water and we have been told that people on a shared supply will be charged a flat rate until each house gets its won supply. If we were paying for water I would probably have been given a new connection asap.

[@phoenix27151]

​@@irishterminator. Irish Terminator? I presume you are an American pretending to be Irish be if you were actually Irish you would know we don't pay for water, guess what? It falls from the sky 360 days of the year

[@irishterminator.]

@phoenix27151 Well look at this feckbubble prodding his big nose into something he has no place in, That said I was talking to an adult not a basement dweller ( or here in Ireland the kid still living in his parents house) because here in Ireland we absolutely do pay for our water just not directly so do the grown ups a favour and play your ps72 so you can pretend you're a soldier

[@JimmyMatis-h9y]

NGL, it sounds like they learned a good bit from Soviet bureaucracies - no one did sh*t until a bigger fish reached out to pressure them.

[@Shaun949]

TV licence is a national embarrassment. Never spoke to more unprofessional and aggressive people on the phone for asking a simple question.

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

Thats still going? Im amazed that anyone watches TV still

[@Shaun949]

@@drmantistoboggan2870 They don't, but you still have to pay!

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

@@Shaun949 what lol

[@mildlydispleased3221]

The TV licence is a necessary evil, both Ireland and the UK have well-respected, largely unbiased reporting and can make shows that showcase domestic talent and boost the creative economy without having to worry about making a profit. Look at the US where compenies run everything, all news reporting is biased, shows are cancelled mid-way through production of after one series even if they are popular, and 2/3 of films in the cinema these days are shite sequels.

[@Shaun949]

@@mildlydispleased3221 rte is beyond shite.

[@IONAPINKMOXIE]

That's when you know you're rich- when you don't know what your salary is but you're bills are getting paid.

[@XGD5layer]

Nah that starts at middle class, rich is when you have wealth. People's living standards are being cut and somehow the lower limit for the class goes down, that's how people at large get deluded into thinking they've retained their living standard.

[@CobisTaba]

Do you know your exact yearly salary? I do not, and while I know my income is good, I am not making 100k or more ;). Note, I know it fairly accurately, but in a legal hearing slightly wronging still wrong, so do you know it exactly?

[@Theresadoran-y7s]

Doesn’t know what he’s paying himself??? 😂😂😂

[@willemakkermans4067]

They should have made him ring his wife on the spot and ask her.

[@tomgreen2737]

Proudly have never paid for a TV licence. And I never will.

[@SQWONCE]

I mean how will they know anyway?

[@simplyfrancois]

The irony! Against corruption but in favour of tax evasion...🤡

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

​@@simplyfrancoistax itself is corrupt.

[@VortexBH]

Would they not know?

[@DampedGull2579]

@@drmantistoboggan2870not true, taxes are very important for keeping our country operating, shocking, I know.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

Now they want to levy our phones.

[@timotheatae]

Embarrassing. They're trying to run a public broadcaster like a private business. This is the businss of the minister for finance, not a so and so executive.

[@noelfleming3567]

A mafia rte and government

[@kelly2180]

Everyone working for Rte is shilling for the state.

[@JimmyMatis-h9y]

as is anyone paying the TV tax

[@theeaskey]

Ever since west brit gay byrne brought on gerry adams and refused to shake hands with him.they showed exactly who they were.

[@markdempsey8790]

My opinion as well. Never liked the Guy and what he did to Adam’s set my opinion in stone from there on in. Gave a very generous welcome to Pasley though didn’t he. Forgetting how he much his mouth served to fuel the violence in NI

[@theeaskey]

​@markdempsey8790 totally agree. Dont let anyone tell u the elite west brits don't still run this island. In my little town all the houses that come up for sale are snapped up by brits...

[@stephencunniffe823]

The fact they have since gone begging for money again is real annoying. Like how the hell do you ask for more money if you have no idea how that money got into there account.

[@intothewild9052]

5000 euros? That's some chicken fillet roll!

[@francesbaldwin2526]

This guy is my daily tonic. Topics are so relevant.

[@kvjackal7980]

Meanwhile, in the US, sandwiches actually cost $5000.

[@worldofjacob1291]

To update the non-Irish people here, this year (one year later) basically no one paid their TV Licence, and what can RTÉ do about it?

[@Michael-xg5gn]

Having visited my parents for the last 20 years when they moved back to Ireland I can testify that NO Irish person should pay that licence!! Old repeats of British gameshows and soaps 5 to 10 years old!

[@marklee2910]

So true, disgraceful

[@vivokea8334]

We have exactly the same situation in south africa..even when a person dies,and a death certificate is produced.. payment for the TV licence is demanded..... until an attorney is appointed...to stop it....😂😂😂

[@TheNealo]

Tell it like it is. Well done sir ❤❤

[@emmamcdonald3410]

Every irish person needs to refuse to pay the tv licence then they will have to stop charging it because they cant bring the whole of Ireland to court

[@Etwo-the-shmoo]

I”f you have Anything in your house with a screen on it A fuckin’ watch they make you pay the TV license” 2nd favourite Irish sentence

[@sheilaclerkin2238]

Only a year ago and most people have moved on from being bothered about it. Truely shocking

[@iskandertime747]

The last time i was in Ireland, there was some kind of scandal going on. I don't remember much about it, but the newspapers reported that one gentleman, after receiving a bribe, responded to his briber "Thanks, big feller".😅

[@debbiestevens6312]

Unfortunately there still seems to be a fair bit still happening. At least 1 big fraud being uncovered every year. One I remember was some land rezoning for a property developer to help him sell the properties for a lot more money. Meetings in car parks & brown paper envelopes being handed over.

[@polomaonaigh6307]

BANG ON BRO. WELL DONE THANKS 👍

[@joyb5525]

The FRAUD in RTE gets worse. My pal worked for 25 years in the Radio section and she and her colleagues paid into their private pension fund. To-date RTE wages department has not paid E1 to any of it's ex employees for their legitimate dues.

[@debbiestevens6312]

The ex employees need to sue them in a class action lawsuit. They need a no win no fee lawyer. What a disgrace. Is the govt not doing anything about it?

[@pixiwix]

King of All the Money sounds like a much better title TBH. I'd go with that one instead.

[@Sean-sn9ld]

Make more videos about Ireland and Irish Culture... Theyre you're best work imo

[@PanelHopper]

This scandal was messed up, but I’m grateful that you correctly explained that the TV license is a tax. A lot of people here on the eastern side of the Irish Sea pretend not to understand that so they can complain about it without feeling guilty.

[@RicardoBSB95]

Meanwhile poor people get sent to prison for not paying the rich golden handshakes for corrupt celebs.

[@Michael-xg5gn]

RTEs business model is to go to the British and ask have you got any old gameshows that we can show on the cheap? Sure! The Chase, Tipping point buts its 5 years old! No problem the Irish wont know! But their British children come to visit and wonder why Bradley Walsh looks so young!!!😂😂

[@RobertJarecki]

Sounds like RTE needs a good old-fashioned accountant. I'm old, I'm good, I'm an accountant. I volunteer to move to Ireland and will accept half of what the current "King Of Money" is being paid. I'm currently living in the USA and have a university pension and US Social Security. I'll be fine with half salary. I'll have to bring my very English 14 year old Jack Russell Terrier, however. But, he just sleeps most of the time so he's not much of a danger to anyone.

[@gerry4915]

That's why I've refused to pay my tv licence...to this corrupt organisation

[@hermionegardener3796]

So rich, they don't notice a couple hundred more or less

[@nancyjason8159]

Well just seen this vid would love to start a meeting o f debate about irish politics/corruption im also irish from limerick and living in clare ive lived in a load of different countries and nowhere else gets away with such open corruption its insane need ppl to talk about it b4 i go mad

[@debbiestevens6312]

Corruption in Ireland is like it was in the UK in the 70s. I felt Ireland had cleaned things up quite a few years ago but it seems like a big fraud’s uncovered annually. Maybe they just got better at hiding it? It’s such a shame because so much of it affects the tax payer.

[@kristintaylor4024]

Woopsie doops is now what I say when I fuck up at work. 😅

[@pokekiwi]

Hello Garron, I'm a big fan of yours. Senior lady here from Alberta, Canada. I stumbled upon Bridget and Eamon awhile ago and absolutely loved the series. Wondering if you watched it and what you thought of it.

[@dawnk6910]

Just the same in uk with bbc

[@raycorrigan3297]

Ya but Rte also run adverts! Cheeky bxstards

[@itaomahony502]

Bang on as usual.

[@miketaverner4451]

Makes me think of the BBC

[@debbiestevens6312]

It’s exactly the same but with worse programmes.

[@MasterBenTzu]

So glad in the us we let the free market choose what channels we pay for

[@nicolad8822]

You’d rather pay corrupt billionaires?

[@MasterBenTzu]

@@nicolad8822 at least my tax dollars are not forcibly allocated to them in theory. Thus I can choose not to watch or pay them directly.

[@gerrymolloygerryjustice2015]

Brilliant 👍

[@johnobrien9971]

Garron what you on about cher everyone will go to the general election and vote ff and fg again.

[@richiehoyt8487]

This is around the time they blew up their Long Wave transmitter because 'it was costing too much to run' - a bit hard to figure given that they were barely putting enough juice into it to power the aircraft warning light on top! Still, I'd grudgingly cut them a pass on that, since there's hardly a broadcaster on the continent still transmitting on L.W. - The BBC are about the last, and the say they will switch off sometime this year or when the crystal gives up the ghost, whichever comes first. (In the meantime I'm still listening to BBC Radio 4 on L.W. most days). What really, _really_ annoyed me though was when shortly before this they shut down Digital Audio Broadcasting (D.A.B.) on the grounds that 'no~one' was listening. This, after persuading half the country to shell out for new radios able to play D.A.B., at not insubstantial cost. The most outrageous part of this (and in fairness, RTE can't really be blamed, not directly anyway), electric appliance stores still sell DAB radios to an unsuspecting public with no disclaimers whatever on the shelves!

[@DjBulletsmadden]

Yep you got that spot on lad

[@pauls.2526]

Garron, if was a Co.Mayo man and you ran in the next election, you would get my no.1 vote. After this video, you just lost your place on the Late Late Show😂😂😂. How cares you're a true irish artist keep up the great work, man.

[@mtw9471]

Any thoughts on "the bike shed"

[@Thiccoman]

other countries have the same issues with their "government-provided" program - the programs are re-runs of things from decades ago and there's news and weather reports. Nobody watches that shit but still has to pay "for TV". Actually, we pay for the infrastructure that allows TV and radio, and the problem is the infrastructure finance is not separated from programs' finance, forcing everyone to pay for all of that, instead of infrastructure maintenance only

[@TOAST....]

The tele man is like your mother’s friend that she always tell you to say she’s not here

[@herlordship]

I, and mean this with every fiber of my physical being in the depths of the cockles of my soul, I would rather be dealing with that than the bullshit '3 Ring Traveling Circus, Zoo and Freak Show' that is happening here in America.

[@karendaley3184]

Shocking, absolutely shocking.

[@marioflavin2141]

Jeyzus Chrisht almighty its the same as the BBC.

[@XBOXM117]

dont pay the licence fee lads

[@karenmcc2197]

Brilliant

[@bobbybobbob839]

You do make me laugh mr Irish man!

[@nedfromthehill3475]

Did they ever find out who had the car on hire for 5 year's? 😂

[@xeropulse5745]

reallocate 75% of the TV License funds to TG4

[@SatumainenOlento]

He bloody well knows what is earning....He just did not want to say it!!! 🙄 If he had told that he gets 1 million per year in tha occasion...there would been hanging in the village square!

[@janeread3735]

Yeah sounds like the BBC too. King of all the money 😂

[@Potemkin2000]

TV License in South Africa as well - hardly anyone who can afford a licence even watches the public broadcaster, SABC. Useless organisation

[@kevc6115]

You should be doing business and political analysis on RTE. I'd pay the licence just for that. (I haven't had a TV in 10 years, therefore no licence paid).

[@Platypi007]

More delicious than a 5000 euro sandwich, even!

[@ContraryMary]

Garron isn't kidding about the shite tv that nobody wants to watch.

[@debbiestevens6312]

It’s why everyone in Ireland has satellite TV/ Netflix etc.

[@lexzoolia1]

Oisin needs to pay Ratso immediately

[@PhilMoynihan]

Read the whole conversation. I start by saying irish water is funded by billions of taxpayers money. I was asked how a water sypply could be shared if we were being billed. Actually the situation at the moment is worse than privatisation. The tax payer pays billions yet Irish Water is not maintaining supply. They have no competition so they can just leave you without water for as long as they like. I got a call recently. They have identified ten failures and will send me €300. That is supposed to compensate me for being forced out of my house for a year and a half

[@CounterstrikeMercs]

Yes sir you are.

[@markcronin2857]

This is brilliant, so Irish it's hilarious!!

[@colmtansey8359]

A fuching watch 😂😂😂

[@devanman7920]

And the eventually punishment was we still pay a license and now they get a government grant on top 😅

[@k.mad.8062]

It's like beer pong but cash without cash, a credit pong

[@stepheboyd17]

But here wouldn’t we all never let on if we got extra money. He only like the rest of us 😂😂

[@akale2620]

Damn hornswoggle really is a leprechaun

[@Jotari]

The funny thing about that scandal was that RTE was the only ones reporting it.

[@The2wanderers]

This sounds more like incompetence than corruption.

[@DeeLish2000]

It’s the Maths. RTE can’t do maths

[@Padraigp]

They can't do a lot of things. Like make tv shows of any quality. Fair city is and always has been a joke. They just say their lines word after word without any intonation at all. It's ridiculous.

[@KeithMillar-jr3uy]

... @DeeLish2000 - they can't do Musicals either ;)

[@yvetteblack9370]

We have shit programs too in Australia 🇦🇺- but thankfully we don’t have to pay to watch 📺

[@Padraigp]

Not true. You can have a screen. Thats fine. Laptop phone whatever. If you have an areal or a cable and a screen then they charge you because you have acsess to rte. You can of course watch rte online anyway on a phone or laptop but they dont charge a licence for that.

[@aprildawn8656]

Oh good grief, talk about giving the runaround

[@youtubularTV]

Instilling international confidence for us there 😉

[@KoneKlubKult]

This dude looks just like me, we're probably related seperated by 350 years

[@CallanElliott]

Im gonna be honest, defund RTE. That way none of this matters. Also, for the foreigners, RTE is like the 1-star Temu version of the BBC with 3-Michelin Star audacity. For instance, part of the reason why the TV licence in Ireland is so annoying is because RTE run ads as well as get TV licence money

[@seanoneill9130]

Disband the RTÉ.

[@Liam25025]

Everyone in Ireland should refuse to pay the tv licence. What the fuck are they goinh to do about it

[@KorsarNik]

Good question. Really, what can they do? Fine you? Sue you? I don't know, what does Irish law say about it?

[@DerekObrien-tk7we]

We have been.spending 5.million a day on asylum.seeker per day so this is irrelavqnt

[@nicolad8822]

Hard to believe anyone is worth that much for doing a TV show in a country with a population of 5m, even without the illegal bit.

[@Prometheushighaf]

You'll need a licence to own a dog next... Oh wait

[@kevinsomerville3177]

Still funny a year later 😂

[@OttomanWarriorWoman]

This is the same for us in England. Whether you watch the BBC or not, you still need to pay the TV licence. Elderly people that can't afford it have been fined and put in jail for refusing to pay. The BBC makes some really shite programmes like the One Show, and any news or current affairs programme.

[@Ava-wm6cv]

Rte is the one show in fucking steroids. It's woeful tripe. OAP's get the license for free though. The rest of us are obliged by law to pay for a service we don't use. I personally never turn on rte, and if I did It is included in the sky package I pay stupid money for.

[@nicolad8822]

Well that’s not entirely true now is it?

[@TehJimlad]

RTE needs to take a leaf from the BBC's book and stop running ads

[@papi8659]

The BBC is even more corrupt

[@clareomalley5644]

It's classic Irish stuff .... comic incompetence !!

[@josephomalley4094]

We do corruption or is it incompetence or is it insanity best !

[@glonky427]

Yes.... we all pay the tv license dont we? Heh

[@czaszi]

People were unhappy but still did shite to punish rte.

[@irish_rambler]

Fair play more videos like this

[@conncooney5997]

I even watched the Ads Garron

[@eddiestaunton514]

If there's work goin there's work goin

[@beertruk2429]

Fvkin hilarious... 😆

[@ferguscahillane1993]

The year is 2034, a decent sandwich in Dublin costs €5,000 3:26

[@rinkle396]

❤

[@seanohartaigh2209]

A lot of the electorate forget that , holding them to acoount means voting them out. Obviously there should be another step to accountability, i.e. jail time , but at least shouldn't you just vote them out ? It is facilitating unreal amounts of corruption that is a danger to citizens. But keep it light , it not me doing it , I'm just saying.

[@allyson1691]

Funny on the one hand and very much NOT OKAY!!

[@nc2933]

Tubridy spent it on coke