Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Its tax evasion and a criminal offence.
Marty should have to face full criminal action from revenue like everyone else would
This should not stop a review of RTE to find out who else is hiding dodgy deals.
By that logic business to business transactions shouldn't be charging vat!
Yep- I’d prefer “The plank” over someone who just looks on edge the whole time, interrupts his guests and has too much misdirected energy
He said he got authorisation from RTÉ - RTÉ hasn’t confirmed this authorisation or at least haven’t done so up to yesterday evenings drive time radio show- all they did was repeat Marty’s statement which indicates that he notified RTÉ of the arrangement.
One possible reason for the “secrecy” was simply in the current climate, Marty felt the optics didn’t look good and decided to end the arrangement - however, the FF senator who asked the question originally about car allowances had no knowledge of Marty’s arrangement in advance and it was RTÉ that essentially threw Marty under the bus, but without then actually answering the senators original question. (Can’t remember the senators name but he was on TV3 last night talking about this)
RTE are obviously offering up small fry errors of judgement ( and in Marty’s case considering he was open with RTÉ on this arrangement, I view that as very unfair to Marty) instead of getting under the bonnet of the much bigger issues that are obviously there
It seems loveable Marty has pressed the panic button to cover his own backsi before the sh*t hits the fan over other employees with certain perks outside RTE.
I will continue to pay my licence fee and I would encourage everybody to do so.
RTE is a great public server broadcaster.
a new DG will start next week and we should give him a chance.
at the end of the day nothing illegal happened.
i value the work done by RTE and it is high time this witch hunt is stopped.
let the new DG have a good start next week.
Is there no end to your nonsense
The Marty Mobile scandal was convenient. The problem for the Tubridy fans hoping for a return of Tubridy to RTE is that people seem to genuinely like Marty Morrissey.
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Nope.
It is everlasting and without end.
Is there no end to your nonsense?
It is possible that somebody is dripfeeding this information.
Tubs
Musical
Marty
.....all on different days.
Did you declare this double income to Revenue ?
8 months pregnant at the time, apparently.
Intriguing.
I’d say it was a new model every year. It might have been every 6 months.
On the show he did around Ireland, can you see the car reg?
Tid bits of info here or there. Being dragged out by RTE until the Dail goes on holidays in the hope another scandal arises over the summer (Golfgate size)
They need to dump everything they know right now onto the table. This is a joke, pure and deliberate delay tactics.
Was watching Prime Time's reporting of the scandal and they had a clip of Tubridy presenting at one of the Renault events. His words in the clip were "That's some talent." Perhaps the RTE staff are enjoying some of this too. The new DG is going to have to do a lot of hard work to rebuild confidence in RTE and the morale of RTE staff.
Don't feed the troll man
Rumer has it marty was demanding 5 grand cash for these little Renault outings, although he said he didn't accept a cent, what surprised me more about this is , Marty was driving around in a 5 year old Renault
And you felt the need to be one of the cranks? 🤔
Are we moving to hair transplants and teeth fixing today?
Great.
https://www.hrbr.ie/testimonial/marty-whelan/
What you say in theory is true .... and is used as the excuse by these so-called 'stars' when they defend their obscene money .... the reality is rather different:
Niamh
A Bedsit? In this economy? You think I can afford a bedsit?
Now who's delusional?
You’re hardly making a brave stand for free speech when you’re sitting in your bedsit calling a woman on the television fat. 😂 I have never seen such delusions of grandeur before.
Words have no strength, weight or meaning unless we allow them to.
Off Topic, but relevant, imo.
On Prime Time tonight, Helen MacEntee (I think I spelled that right) was discussing the new 'hate' legislation that is being proposed. As Sarah McInerney pointed out, our levels of what we find 'offensive' is different, and no 'law' can essentially legislate for that. (Even MacEntee didn't seem to know the legislation herself-not a good look).
They even spoke to folks, many of whom were liberal minded, who would like to see some form of legislation, but found the proposed legislation far too 'extreme'. A garda, a Solicitor, and a judge would all be in disagreement as to what would be defined as 'hate-speech' or 'hateful behaviour'.
I happen to think it’s very kind to defend a person who is being attacked for gaining weight
Cash will be the end of us Marty.
Never a Truer word spoken Bisto.
Another "bekind" alt I see.
Imagine a grown man actually doing that repeatedly.
You've only been here since July.
I'm fat, I don't see an issue with pointing it out. Managed to shed a couple of pounds too, thru making a few changes. But I'm still chunky. People point it out to me, and I take no offence. It just means I gotta make a few changes to not let it get out of hand.
She'd discussed her weight loss for many years, and it was very noticable. And really surprising, haven't seen her on TV in a long while.
But her appearance on The Tonight Show was just a waste of time. And her attacking Imelda Munster over questions that genuinely needed to be asked sounded like FF/ RTE spin. Even the other contributors to the panel were having none of it. Munster has HAD to be aggressive in her questioning, as RTE are just pushing spin rather than cold, hard facts.
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