Ciarán Kenneally has spent the past few years shaking his head in disbelief and says he's only started laughing again in the past few months.
"I never asked for any of this," the 36-year-old Corkman says.
"There's nothing special about me."
And yet the situation in which he found himself since the start of 2019 is remarkable.
Having worked before and since in the public sector, he was at that point with Tusla in Cork, having joined at the end of May 2018.
He says he first raised concerns with local and regional management in September of that year and handed in his notice on January 8, 2019.
The reason, he says, was work-related stress.
"I felt I had no other option as management was difficult," he says.
"I then contacted Quality Assurance within Tusla where we both concluded that my resignation would be rescinded."
I didn't want to leave, [I] just felt I had no other option.
He made a protected disclosure, effectively by accident — "completely" — in relation to "training and procurement and the level of clerical staffing overseeing that whole process".
And then it all went a bit strange.
Leaving aside, momentarily, the issues he was raising, and how they came to be deemed a protected disclosure, he ended up without any income for a period of four months.
This was deemed to be a technical mistake.
Back in October 2019, this newspaper quoted the chair of the Child and Family Agency, Pat Rabbitte, as saying Tusla would "have to examine" what happened.
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