"THE OLD MAN wasn't wrong when he said that the Celtic Tiger's dirty little secrets weren't going to shred themselves," Ross O'Carroll-Kelly once said about his dad's confidential document disposal service, Shred Focking Everything.

So our interest was piqued when this Shred-it van was spotted on one of Dublin’s most exclusive roads recently .

Not that we’re suggesting there was anything untoward going on, but the road in question, like many of Dublin’s most prestigious addresses, was home to a long list of businessmen, developers and high flying bankers during the boom.

Unsurprisingly some have since had a reversal in fortune and have moved on to more modest neighbourhoods – some abroad – or are in the process of doing so. We wonder if Shred-It has come across many clients like the one Ross encountered.

“A dude from a company you’d all know had given me 18 bags of documents an hour earlier and I swear to God he was sweating like a petting zoo – kept asking me about some technology that the FBI supposedly has that allows them to put shredded documents back together,” Ross recalled.