In his first televised interview since last year’s presidential campaign, Sean Gallagher tells Gay Byrne what gave an almost-blind schoolboy failure the self-belief to run for the highest office in the land, and how he has coped with the disappointment of becoming last year’s nearly man. After several months in the spotlight, Gallagher has been more or less invisible in the months since. He reveals that he and his wife, Trish, spent a few days at a Carmelite monastery in Sligo after the election, meditating, walking and getting to know one another again. Now she has persuaded him to move to her home county of Cork and the Monaghan-born, Cavan-raised, previously Louth-based businessman says he is happy enough to pull on the red jersey of the Rebel County. A year after he came so close to winning the presidency, he tries to be philosophical. Ah, but would he go again?