Life after politics – what our former TDs did next

How are the politicians who lost their seats in February faring? Fiachra Ó Cionnaith talks to one former TD who returned to being a postmaster - and another planning to write a screenplay.

They’re not all hiding in cupboards waiting to jump out and promote Sunday newspaper columns, you know.

While former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s infamous 2010 decision to be filmed hiding in a kitchen cupboard an adert is one of the images that spring to mind when thoughts turn to what former TDs do after leaving the Dáil stage, the reality is more diverse.