MARCI Reardon sits at her desk in the offices of Countrywide Financial in Oak Park, California. It’s Friday morning, Jul 13, 2007, and she’s fighting this niggling feeling something’s not right. Michael. For the longest time she’s tended to receive this odd sensation whenever Michael’s been hurt, some kind of connection.

WITH his long tresses and his habit of wearing jeans and the Cork O2 GAA jersey when performing his magic, Michael Reardon didn’t fit the conventional image of a rock climber. How he presented himself was more in keeping with our notion of a rock musician.