Forty-two years before last weekend's swapping of the role of Taoiseach between a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael leader within a Coalition Government, broadcaster Sean O'Rourke witnessed a premonition of just how comfortable the two parties could be together decades before they shared power.In 1980, O'Rourke, then a political reporter with the Sunday Press, was sent to Mayo to cover then-taoiseach Charlie Haughey's visit to his birth county and report on the unveiling of 'tablets' on the Castlebar house marking where the Fianna Fáil leader was born.

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