Marty Morrissey: 'In America, it’s all about positivity. There isn’t a begrudging attitude'

Culture That Made Me: The RTÉ broadcaster includes his father's pub, Gay Byrne, Neil Diamond and his time at UCC among his major touchstones 

Marty Morrissey.

Marty Morrissey was born in Mallow, Co Cork. His family moved to the USA and he spent most of the first 11 years of his life in New York. Marty and family eventually moved home to Ireland where his father ran a pub in Quilty, Co Clare. He has been broadcasting for RTÉ for more than three decades.

A cocktail of influences