FÁS left short changed by Robbie
January 30, 2010
So we were told by the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) report this week that all but one of the payments, made between 2002 and 2008, was approved by former director general Rody Molloy.
There was a plethra of different things that Rody approved -
U2 and Westlife tickets feature on €69,000 entertainment bill
* €7,000 for tickets for All Ireland football and hurling finals. For each final between 2006 and 2008, 10 tickets were purchased, while between four and eight were bought for each final between 2002 and 2005.
* €4,640 on tickets for rugby internationals between 2006 and 2008.
* €1,960 on tickets for soccer internationals between 2007 and 2008.
* €3,724 on concerts, including four premium tickets for U2 in 2005, tickets for Billy Joel, Bon Jovi and Robbie Williams in 2006, The Police in 2007 and Westlife and Neil Diamond in 2008.
But the thing is, those who went to the Robbie Williams concert were short changed, because if my memory (and google) serves me right, didn’t Robbie promise to come back and do a free gig?
While the mortified star promised to make amends by returning with a free gig, Dublin is a place that Robbie Williams will undoubtedly want to forget.
But they never got to go that free gig, as it didn’t happen. I can just imagine the look on the faces of Robbie’s management team when they heard that. But fear not, it is not happening at the moment. But if it does happen, will those who recieved their tickets from Santa – aka Roddy, will they go and who were the lucky recipients or unlucky recipients of the tickets???
