Rory McIlroy

[Gabriel_Hurl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57vhVMMla8

Probably only gave him the ball because he was wearing a green shirt and thought he was a taig

[Gabriel_Hurl]

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-10-07/golf-star-rory-mcilroy-donates-1m-to-open-support-centre-for-children-with-cancer/

[T Fearon]

Fair play to him for this gesture

[Applesisapples]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

[balladmaker]

Fair play to him, Rory's in a position to do a lot of good and no doubt his foundation will contribute millions to such causes over the coming years. 

[muppet]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

Jaysus, that is beyond cynical. Golf isn't a popularity contest so I fail to see the value of 'good pr'.

[Applesisapples]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

Jaysus, that is beyond cynical. Golf isn't a popularity contest so I fail to see the value of 'good pr'.

Then you are naive, McIlroy is a business, he is there to sell Nike therfore his brand matters as does his image rights.

[muppet]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

Jaysus, that is beyond cynical. Golf isn't a popularity contest so I fail to see the value of 'good pr'.

Then you are naive, McIlroy is a business, he is there to sell Nike therfore his brand matters as does his image rights.

Ah I see. He couldn't just be doing something for his community with his money.

[thebigfella]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

Jaysus, that is beyond cynical. Golf isn't a popularity contest so I fail to see the value of 'good pr'.

Then you are naive, McIlroy is a business, he is there to sell Nike therfore his brand matters as does his image rights.

I would suspect he doesn't pay tax anymore in the UK or he would be getting shafted, so it's unlikely he's doing it for tax purposes and anyway from my understanding the donation far outweighs what he would be entitled for in relief.

First it was a flag that offended you and now it's his philanthropy 

[Megaman]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

Jaysus, that is beyond cynical. Golf isn't a popularity contest so I fail to see the value of 'good pr'.

i agree fair play to him, but for most golfers it most certainly is a popularity contest.

[AZOffaly]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

Jaysus, that is beyond cynical. Golf isn't a popularity contest so I fail to see the value of 'good pr'.

i agree fair play to him, but for most golfers it most certainly is a popularity contest.

In what way is it a popularity contest?

[glens abu]

Have a good friend who does a lot of work for this children's charity and told me a fe weeks ago about this,gave £1 million and as far as I know £250k a year for next 4 years.He was their yesterday for MCilroys visit got a lot of golf shirts signed for auction at the golf day he runs for Clik Sargent.Just think we should be proud of what McIlroy has done and will continue to do and I can assure any of you on this board begrudging what Rory has done that the parents of these children don't think like you.Shame on you.

[pullhard]

if it for tax purposes so what, at least he's helping out. big corp fiddling tax is the real issue

[Throw ball]

Fair play to him for this gesture

Tax deductable and good pr...cynical? what me?

Tax deductible. Maybe. If he has himself set up as a company in the Uk, and assuming his profit is more than £300,000 a £1,000,000 donation will save him tax of £210,000. That still means an outlay of £790,000. Again this is assuming his tax affairs are not more complex in nature. That is some gift. Well done Rory.

[Kidder81]

Was this not announced a few months ago ? Remember reading something about it in irish news. Fair play to him but hardly the first multi millionaire sportsman to give to charity