Catherine Bailey
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Even talking about it today is very hard.
It was so sudden.
We thought we'd come out of the woods with his health issues and we felt we were on the upward trajectory and that we were out of the woods, you know, and then for it to happen the way it did so suddenly, it was very, very shocking and very distressing for me and the children.
And it's even hard, like I say, to talk about it today.
And one of the worst things
You know, what could do is have to tell your children that their dad has passed away.
I was hardly home a day and it struck me how deep in admin I'd have to get in, you know, be part of and get into.
And slowly but surely, just taking over the reins in his very shocked and very grief stricken state between between the utilities and whatnot.
I got around to looking at the pension side of things and moved to HR.
And they got back to me in due course saying, quoting a number that seemed completely out of whack to Sean's earnings.
And I had to question it naturally.
And I said, this is maybe an error.
I think you're wrong.
This is so out of whack with this is so these numbers are incorrect.
And then I was reassured rather coolly in a very, you know, kind of clinical letter that, no, this is it.
So the next port of call was to go and try and contact the Board of Management of RTE, which I did.
I got everyone's name on there, including Mr. Baccarat's, of course.
And I said, what is this?
I'm completely at a loss as to work out how you worked out these numbers.