Clare pharma worker tells judge he won't pay TV licence due to 'corruption of RTÉ'

Defendant said: 'I don’t have to have a toaster licence — I don’t have to have a fridge licence. Why do I have to have a TV licence?' 

James Scanlon of O’Garney Heights, Sixmilebridge, Co Clare, appeared before Judge Alec Gabbett at Ennis Courthouse. File picture: Maurice O'Mahony

A Co Clare pharma worker stood up in court to tell a judge that he will not paying his TV licence or any fines for not doing so because of "the corruption in RTÉ".

At Ennis District Court, James Scanlon told Judge Alec Gabbett that it is "an unjust law” that requires him to pay the annual €160 TV licence.