Roy Trenneman is a fictional character in award winning British comedy The IT Crowd. Played by Chris O'Dowd, Roy is a laid-back IT technician from Ireland, he is often shown to go to great lengths to fob off workmates so he can sit around doing nothing. However, when something does happen, he is always the one who gets the wrong end of the stick and is constantly either injured or in distress. He and his co-worker Moss are described as "standard nerds" by Denholm Reynholm.Find out more on Wikipedia.