Retracing the Big Fellow’s final steps

John Creedon is to follow in the footsteps of Michael Collins in a new documentary, writes Dan Buckley

TELLING the tale of Michael Collins’s last journey was as much delight as duty for RTÉ presenter John Creedon, but he knows what the payola will be.

“As soon as the show goes out people from all over Cork will be coming up to me to tell me how I got this bit wrong or that wrong — that Collins didn’t climb that hill but the one behind or that he and his military convoy didn’t take this boreen but the other one.”