RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Isn’t VAT designed to be paid by the end user. So everyone else in the supply chain pays and reclaims the VAT including Renault. But the end user is supposed to pay the VAT that the Revenue ultimately keeps.

In this case, Marty is the end user as, whatever spin he puts on it, he got the car as “payment”. But because he never paid a cent for it, the Revenue actually got nothing out of it. Or am I misunderstanding VAT?

The car thing doesn't even seem that bad with respect to the rot that's been exposed further up. It just seems like typical 'cute hoor'-ism that we all know goes on up and down this country since time immemorial. I'm sure our Marty could write several volumes about all the favours and backhanders he's been offered or promised by gregarious red-faced men in countless GAA club bars since the 1980s or whenever he became a celebrity.

What in hell has this got to do with the discussion? 🙄

“Also, saw Stefanie Preissner on the Tonight Show, and wow, she has piled the weight back on. She's back to her heaviest.”

I wonder who paid the annual motor tax, insurance & maintenance costs for the vehicle while on "loan" to Marty.

And how on earth have you managed to hide it for so long?

To conrinue the Mafia vibe there will be a lot of connected though not made people in the Dublin media looking for a step up now that some RTE made people are in trouble. Also Ballsy could see his RTE salary being capped if new salary rules are introduced. The most interesting thing about a scandal like this is that it is like a KAL007 event for media and "talent" networks, Back in the Cold War, the Soviets show down a Korean airliner and killed everyone on board. However, it lit up the Soviet communications system and the West learned a lot about the Soviet air force and defence. Watching for favourable pieces and defences of RTE in the media could be interesting,

There might be a good media studies/sociology or even Statistics paper on the frequencies of appearances by "talent" represented by various agents on the LLS and the decline in audience figures as people got tired of seeing the same faces again and again. What made the LLS under Gaybo was its sheer unpredictability and the professionalism of Gaybo.

Regards...jmcc

One very simple question for Marty Morrissey to be asked ... "when was the last time you purchased a car for yourself"

Get popcorn, sit back..

Cheeky cnuts

classic. rte should be made choose between the 2.

why not try to increase commercial cos fees are gonna drop? cos fees dont require any output or viewership.

i'll happily pay a licence if there are no ads like bbc.

rte has become too bloated.

hopefully this results in a change, but i doubt it very much.

the politicians have no appetite for it either which is an issue

What rumours are you hearing about Marty? PM me

You've only been here since July.

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'.