A councillor at the centre of an RTE Investigations Unit programme claims he knew he was being set up by a journalist - and went along with it for the craic.

Councillor Hugh McElvaney - who resigned from Fine Gael recently - claims he was set up by RTE and his former party.

The programme reveals three politicians offered to lobby on behalf of a wind farm in return for money or the promise of a loan or an investment in a private business.

Councillor McElvaney has told Joe Finnegan on Shannonside Northern Sound that he was trying to catch RTE out when an undercover journalist spoke to him: