Watch: Unseen footage of the moments before the famous RTÉ news ice slip

It's been nearly seven years since we first saw an unidentified man slipping on ice on RTÉ news.

The poor misfortunate soul made the entire nation laugh during a spate of freezing weather, but the real story behind the 'slipping man' has never been revealed.

Here's the original footage from 2010:

There he was confidently striding down the road with a shopping bag, swinging like a prize he had won for himself, when all of a sudden his world came crashing down.

His life utterly changed forever.

Who was he? What were the events that led him to this incredible moment of kamikaze strutting on a very cold day? Why was it him that had to suffer?

Now, thanks to an incredible amount of investigation by the Fupin' Eejits we can reveal the footage that was hidden away from the world....until now!