TV review: Main take-away from Extraordinary Life: The Ben Dunne Story is that people are complicated

This is a hugely watchable documentary
TV review: Main take-away from Extraordinary Life: The Ben Dunne Story is that people are complicated

Extraordinary Life: The Ben Dunne Story cuts to the chase. Picture: Marc O'Sullivan/Collins

Extraordinary Life: The Ben Dunne Story (RTÉ One and RTÉ Player) cuts to the chase. It’s 1992. Ben Dunne has a sex worker in his Florida hotel room, he’s high on cocaine and he threatening to jump to his death.

U2 were in the same hotel at the time — when Bono told their band-manager about the commotion, he thought it involved one of the notorious Dunne crime family from Dublin.

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