Brendan O'Brien interviews his childhood hero Frank Stapleton for Brendan Courtney’s new show, Keys to my Life

Frank Stepleton and Brendan Courtney

There’s something deliciously nosy about being shown around other people’s houses. This all-too-human curiosity as to what the Jones’ are doing has fashioned an entire TV genre and, unlike that wallpaper in the guest room, it never gets old. Throw a famous face in among the kitchen counters and patio doors and you’ve got yourself a particularly solid foundation.

But you could weep at times for material relegated to the cutting room floor. Frank Stapleton is the ‘celeb’ on this week’s episode of RTÉ’s Keys To My Life. A rare presence on our screens these days, the former footballer retains a hold on those of us old enough to remember him in his pomp, but the realities of a half-hour prime time slot forced the makers to excise one notable house call from the finished product.