Bank Of Ireland Executives Premium Seats

[T Fearon]

Fully acknowledge this Double Cross and always have done.

But in my experience and I was only in the corporate boxes twice, there were only one or two bank officials hosting their clients (and these were not the head buck cats by any means) there. Bank people were actually in the minority.

Of course you could argue now that accepting the fees for hiring the boxes, the GAA has handled what is, according to the logic of this argument, dirty or immoral money, since it derives from people's savings in the first place. Ridiculous.

[rosnarun]

peopler seriously need to grow up as far as the banks are concerned. in the vast majority of cases the banks carried on noemal business but have been hit by  a massive world wide recession/ credit crunch. yes ireland was over reliant  on the construction sector but that was not the banks fault.
would the same shareholders have been whinging on joe duffy if their bank had not participated in the building boom and returned tiny profits compared to those who did and paid huge dividends and had a spiraling share price?
if  not they would just have invested their money in one of the banks that were making these extraordinary profits .
and then heads in the bank would roll.
the problem is a world wide one how its dealt with is ours alone. looking for heads on a plate may make you feel good but the real problems were not caused by actions of a few and has little or nothing to do with the spiraling jobs cuts.
the people hit hardest so far are those who the banks were too nice to and overlent . many of these are now facing ruin, no sympathy maybe but this growing idiotic notion that its all a big conspiracy against the working man is pure media driven makebelive

[lynchbhoy]

peopler seriously need to grow up as far as the banks are concerned. in the vast majority of cases the banks carried on noemal business but have been hit by  a massive world wide recession/ credit crunch. yes ireland was over reliant  on the construction sector but that was not the banks fault.
would the same shareholders have been whinging on joe duffy if their bank had not participated in the building boom and returned tiny profits compared to those who did and paid huge dividends and had a spiraling share price?
if  not they would just have invested their money in one of the banks that were making these extraordinary profits .
and then heads in the bank would roll.
the problem is a world wide one how its dealt with is ours alone. looking for heads on a plate may make you feel good but the real problems were not caused by actions of a few and has little or nothing to do with the spiraling jobs cuts.
the people hit hardest so far are those who the banks were too nice to and overlent . many of these are now facing ruin, no sympathy maybe but this growing idiotic notion that its all a big conspiracy against the working man is pure media driven makebelive

some salient points Ros
but its not the shareholders now who are refusing to lend money out/re-grant overdrafts etc to local businesses - that would be keeping the economy going and increasing our economy , as right now not doing so potentially helps us (and the banks) in a downward spiral !

You have to admit, that there has been incompetance at best negligence/criminal acts at worst from the top tier of the decision makers.
The ordinary worker up to management in banks imo cannot be held accountable.

[Hardy]

Irish bank executives and board members have been dealing in funny money, pumping up a bubble market, reporting based on non-existent assets, concealing material facts from auditors and, by their own admission (in one case at least), acting unethically, aided and abetted by the blind eye of the regulator that was supposed to ensure they didn't do any of the above. The fact that they don't seem to have broken any laws is merely a telling indictment of the law as it stands.

[Bud Wiser]

I sees that a reporter from Sunday Tribune rang Bank of Ireland and AIB (wherever they got the idea from !) to see where and how many Premium Seats they have purchased and BOI say they have entered a half million agreement for 24 seater corporate box in Landsdown for their large corporate clients.  Question now is, will they have large corporate clients by the time it opens, or, do they intend to invite them as a guise, lock them in the corporate boxes and not let them out 'till they pay back the millions they owe us. The article also made reference to the idea of the government bailing out the banks with our money for them to spend it on corporate boxes to watch rugby.

[Bud Wiser]

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/anglo-irish-pulls-plug-on-croke-box-1652337.html

[rosnarun]

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/anglo-irish-pulls-plug-on-croke-box-1652337.html

Surely the point is if these perks attacted corporate client then they were a good idea . an investment bank needs clients . If it starts acting like a credit union the there is no need for it to exist at all . and in the currebt witch hunt mood of the country people will say thats a great idea but its banks like anglo whose job it is to lend money to companies to grow and employ ordinary people.
the same argument is being made about all forms of sponsorship but firm sponsor event for a reason and that attracting attention from a specific group . and if that was working then taking it away is not going to solve the problem of possible wrong doing by certain people within the company.
lets not throw th baby out with the bath water in our thirst for revenge

[johnpower]

I sees that a reporter from Sunday Tribune rang Bank of Ireland and AIB (wherever they got the idea from !) to see where and how many Premium Seats they have purchased and BOI say they have entered a half million agreement for 24 seater corporate box in Landsdown for their large corporate clients.  Question now is, will they have large corporate clients by the time it opens, or, do they intend to invite them as a guise, lock them in the corporate boxes and not let them out 'till they pay back the millions they owe us. The article also made reference to the idea of the government bailing out the banks with our money for them to spend it on corporate boxes to watch rugby.

Good points , I was in a pub recently where some one who works in the mortage section of one of the big banks was getting a lot of grief on the subject from someone impacted by the pension levy . The discussion quickly turned to a question of how come the banks have not shed any jobs when they expect their customers to trim their costs

[thebandit]

I sees that a reporter from Sunday Tribune rang Bank of Ireland and AIB (wherever they got the idea from !) to see where and how many Premium Seats they have purchased and BOI say they have entered a half million agreement for 24 seater corporate box in Landsdown for their large corporate clients.  Question now is, will they have large corporate clients by the time it opens, or, do they intend to invite them as a guise, lock them in the corporate boxes and not let them out 'till they pay back the millions they owe us. The article also made reference to the idea of the government bailing out the banks with our money for them to spend it on corporate boxes to watch rugby.

Good points , I was in a pub recently where some one who works in the mortage section of one of the big banks was getting a lot of grief on the subject from someone impacted by the pension levy . The discussion quickly turned to a question of how come the banks have not shed any jobs when they expect their customers to trim their costs

Ulster Bank cut 750 jobs

[m@yoman]

The ordinary worker up to management in banks imo cannot be held accountable.

couldnt agree with you more there lynchboy.....the amount of abuse that ordinary Bank Officials are getting on a daily basis is wrong...plain and simple....I heard a story there the other day of a young girl who was working behind the till in a certain high profile Bank branch down the country just lodging money/cashing cheques etc, got a bolli*king about the "fat-cats in the bank" from a customer who was in her queue......other customers applauded his outburst?!?

This girl was probably only in the bank a few years and earning a sub €30K a year salary and pays her taxes fair and square like the rest of us....people need to cop on a bit....


((sorry, rant over....))

[johnpower]

I sees that a reporter from Sunday Tribune rang Bank of Ireland and AIB (wherever they got the idea from !) to see where and how many Premium Seats they have purchased and BOI say they have entered a half million agreement for 24 seater corporate box in Landsdown for their large corporate clients.  Question now is, will they have large corporate clients by the time it opens, or, do they intend to invite them as a guise, lock them in the corporate boxes and not let them out 'till they pay back the millions they owe us. The article also made reference to the idea of the government bailing out the banks with our money for them to spend it on corporate boxes to watch rugby.

Good points , I was in a pub recently where some one who works in the mortage section of one of the big banks was getting a lot of grief on the subject from someone impacted by the pension levy . The discussion quickly turned to a question of how come the banks have not shed any jobs when they expect their customers to trim their costs

Ulster Bank cut 750 jobs

Ulster Bank are been bailed out by the British Government .What about the banks been bailed out by the Irish tax payers . ?