‘We got one of the last flights out. With a sigh of relief, we were free’

Fergal O’Connorfrom Lisselton, Co Kerry, spent the last six months teaching in Tripoli. Here he tells of his battle to exit Libya

RETURNING to Libya from Malta on Saturday evening, everything seemed normal. We knew the second city of Benghazi had fallen to the people, but that was 1,000km away and Tripoli was understood to be very much pro-Gadaffi, with reports that he appeared himself on the city’s main street, to wild support.

We went to teach at school as normal on Sunday and everything seemed to be calm as we expected.