The Marty Party: How Marty Morrissey turned a slagging into a stage-show

It began as an Oliver Callan sketch and a bit of gentle banter on Dancing with the Stars – but Marty Morrissey has turned his ‘Marty Party’ into a stage show. He chats to Nicole Glennon as he wraps up his debut run

Marty Morrissey: "can we have a bit of fun with this?" Pics: Moya Nolan

Marty Morrissey has many redeeming qualities. But one of his most enviable, and perhaps most quintessentially Irish, is his ability to take a slagging.

Many an Irish personality has surely been wounded by satirist Oliver Callan’s often less-than-kind impressions over the years but Marty Morrissey has embraced it to such an extent, he’s turned it into his selling point