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No sooner was I out of the country than Bertie turned around and resigned. Well there I was off the island, safe in the thought that nothing could surely happen while I was away. But no, just my luck to miss 5 days that shook the world...well maybe rattled Glasnevin.

My phone burned as texts announcing the resignation peeped in, as friends and workmates wrestled to be the first to tell me the news. Somehow I felt the main purpose of the texts was to remind me that once again I had missed the scoop of the year. Left the scene of the crime so to speak before the crime was even committed.

Doomed to spending the rest of my days in the complaints department after missing such an important story I finished my week in deep depression. I couldn't bear to follow RTE 1 online as they covered the resignation on every show. It's just not the same, as they say, you had to be there, you just had to be there.