Minister McCreevy caught in the headlights with a dose of reality TV

By Fergus Finlay

Brendan O'Brien would go off to the Costa del Sleazy with a camera crew, and like the good reporter he was (he's just retired, by the way), he would wind up confronting the dodgy builder or insurance scammer after all other efforts to bring him to justice had failed.

Your man would have spent several days avoiding the RTE crew, but Brendan would always catch him. Usually coming out of a flash-looking restaurant and just about to get into a shiny car.