Even before the Moriarty tribunal had branded his behaviour “profoundly corrupt”, Ben Dunne admitted to Gay Byrne he’d been “a complete eejit” in his past dealings with politicians. His colourful life has included several brushes with death, an IRA kidnapping, a chequered relationship with Charlie Haughey (not to mention a different sort of Charlie) and more money than was good for him. And yet he reveals how it was the infamous events in a Florida hotel room that finally put him on the road to redemption.