French taxi-man solves mystery of NUIG professor’s missing passport
From this week's Galway City Tribune - An NUIG academic has proven the theory of six degrees of separation and solved a three-year mystery in a bizarre confluence of coincidences.
Professor of Engineering and Informatics, John Breslin, lost his passport after travelling from Portugal to France in 2018.
He had been teaching an entrepreneurship course in Porto and was returning to his holiday home in Carcassonne when he discovered his dilemma.
Luckily, he was able to use his passport card to return to Dublin in order to apply for a replacement passport to travel to the United States shortly afterwards.
“I’m not the kind of person who normally loses stuff and I couldn’t figure out if I lost it in Porto or Carcassonne, but I did retrace my steps afterwards to see if I could find it but there was no sign,” he explained.
However, last month, on his first trip back to the southern medieval town since lockdown, John was travelling in a taxi when the driver asked him if he’d lost his passport. This is a shortened preview version of this article. To read the rest of the story, see this week's Galway City Tribune. You can buy a digital edition HERE.