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Morrissey apologises over

'ad hoc' car arrangement

Sports presenter Marty Morrissey has

apologised for an "error of judgement" in

relation to an "ad hoc" arrangement in which

he had the use of a car for a number of years

Mr Morrissey, who is also RTÉ's Gaelic

Games Correspondent, confirmed the news in

a statement this evening

He said he was asked to MC a number of

events in 2017 at Renault garages across

the country. He said he had sought RTÉ

permission at the time do to so, and that this

was granted.

screamer

Ah well I guess the Marty Party will have to take the Venga Bus from now on

Expunge

Ah! He's a paid up NUJ member, is he not?

I wonder what Emma O'K and the others in the newsroom will do with him.

A public flogging at the very least. Block access to his hair dye maybe.

ButtersSuki

It wasn’t George Lee’s name I heard but that post and his relationship with that company need further examination.

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He seems to be disputing the issue of permission.

gaming_needs90

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120814105#Comment_120814105

What did he do wrong here? He sought permission to do speaking at Renault dealerships, got no payment and got this car on loan basically as payment.

EDIT: It appears he sought permission to do the speakings but failed to mention how he was getting a loaner out of it.

To be honest this seems like a non-story. He didn't do anything on RTE premises or with RTE equipment. Basically a nixer and got paid with this loaner car.

EDIT2: Unless this "Interviewing GAA personalities" was somehow through RTE and thus on-air...

freshpopcorn

Marty's car!

skimpydoo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813907#Comment_120813907

By George I've got it. It's unbleevible.

If it means we don’t have to listen to his awful “can you hear the roar, the passion of the people” intro before every match then I hope he’s fired over this.

testtech05

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120814105#Comment_120814105

The article on the RTE website says the car Marty had ( a Renault..... of course it is!!) was returned on the 23rd of June, does that mean another person returned a separate car on Tuesday?

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RTE- Renault Transport Eireann

StrawbsM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813776#Comment_120813776

Just scrolled all the way back and can confirm this post is still on FB

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Marty will have to be taken off air for editorial reasons now...

He's another 'star' that is vastly overpaid.

Furze99

Marty the Party needed a free car to cover all the invites! But returned it 2 weeks ago - murky.

Andrea B.

I reckon that the Renault garage were **** it when they heard the screeching of a car arriving back to the salesroom on Tuesday, followed by keys being fecked against the window.

Clare to Dublin in record time!

Shelga

It just speaks to the culture of sloppiness and “ah sure it doesn’t matter” with regard to other people’s money, other people’s things. Finance for a new Renault over 5 years would be about €18k, and that’s being conservative.

How is that ok? I have to do endless bullshit online ethics training in work, where it is made extremely clear again and again that it is not ok to accept anything other than very small gifts. And I’m on much less money then Marty Morrissey.

Ugh, just sick of all of them!

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Adrian Lynch said the car was returned on Tuesday. Marty saying it was returned on June 23.

awec

In the overall picture of all that's going on at RTE, the car loan thing is actually relatively small fry.

Marty might have a few tax issues to sort out, but I don't think this one impacts RTE as an organisation too much.

Expunge

He may not have had a car allowance, as the statement says but he was/is entitled to claim mileage and Travel and Subsistence payments for his work.

He does not make that clear at all in this statement.

Also, who was Director of News who allowed this in 2017?

Are there any other deals that he allowed that we should know about?

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Nothing about Benefit in Kind is his statement.

Chopper Dave

I may be picking this up wrongly but the testimony yesterday seemed to suggest that the employee did not have line manager approval to accept the car. This makes me wonder if the line manager (if asked) could have approved such an arrangement.

There is no way in hell that any company I know could or would approve the use of a car as a ‘perk’ or a ‘gift’ from a commercial partner and really RTE staff shouldn’t be allowed either.

evolvingtipperary101

Thought he was a Toyota man:

Photo of Marty returning car:

thehairygrape

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813883#Comment_120813883

Point taken re relative merits of jobs involved. However, the huge salaries paid to too heavy management in a largely dysfunctional organisation funded completely by the taxpayer deserves greater scrutiny. At least RTE have commercial revenue coming in. Not condoning what went on in RTE by any means, but the timing of the disclosure of the salaries is just a bit off to me.

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120814126#Comment_120814126

It really might be the gift that keeps on giving

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120814119#Comment_120814119

Don't you go dragging the lovely Mary Kennedy into this! 😀

GirlatdRockShow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813593#Comment_120813593

Well I wouldnt be surprised if the summer party was cancelled because thats probably for the ordinary low level workers.

The real partys for those at the top will keep going. I mean 2fm hosted a boat party this week with its radio presenters and used a company owned by one by the family of one of their presenters. Of course I'm sure all that went through the proper procurement process and they're definitely wasn't any lavish spending.....

I wonder how many being interviewed by the PAC committee have a tv licence?!

skimpydoo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120811702#Comment_120811702

Yeah it looks it but things are changing Trump is in some serious 💩 and it looks like RT is too.

StrawbsM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120814100#Comment_120814100

Ah here. I swear I was scrolling back and back and back and found that snippet by myself. I didn’t see he’d admitted it 😂

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120814117#Comment_120814117

Ahem... small question of BIK. You know that idea where you get perks that have a cash value and you pay tax on them.

Between this and barter accounts - all smells of tax avoidance.

How much more of this sort of stuff is going to come out??

Revenue need to do a full audit of RTE and all who have been paid by them going back as many years as practical & possible.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813688#Comment_120813688

Clever move alright. It will still be great TV.

I don't think Tubs can save his RTE career in any way but it will be interesting.