It is about three-quarters of an hour into my interview with Father Ted co-creator Arthur Mathews when the conversation ventures into uncomfortable territory. A certain subject has been looming on the horizon from the off and it explains why, early on, he seems so ill at ease.
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Anybody under the illusion that Ireland is a sort of paradise for wealthy tax exiles might want to think about Leslie Charteris. The writer of The Saint, the hugely popular Roger Moore TV series, he moved here in the 1970s to avoid paying a fortune to HM Revenue & Customs but had a thoroughly miserable time among the burghers of south Dublin. Why on earth, he asked, would anyone live in Ireland if they didn’t have to.