Inspectors hear every excuse in the book for lack of TV licence

The kind of excuses people make for failing to pay their television licence would probably make for good reality TV show.

Inspectors hear every excuse in the book for lack of TV licence

In Britain, the firm responsible for collecting the fees has decided to go one better with its own YouTube production. It consists of the wackiest excuses made for failing to pay up.

Here at home, An Post TV inspector Paul Brennan has plenty of material to do likewise. “I’ve seen people dragging the TV out to the back garden or putting it in a closet to avoid me seeing it,” he told a recent edition of An Post’s staff magazine, Postnews.

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