Pádraig Hoare: The Monday Interview: When a Cork man's bright idea catches on

A trip to the Deep South got the intricate machinations of the mind of Pat McNamee working overtime in the early 1990s — today the Cork native is a man whose ingenious clothes washing invention is sold in millions of supermarkets throughout 60 countries, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Colour Catcher solved the conundrum faced by mums and dads every time they went to do a wash — how to stop the likes of a crisp white t-shirt turning into an odd-looking pink one.