Aidan McDermott
What can one say about Aidan without thinking of his mischevious nature and the chats that would always have you laughing but also not quite sure if he was really joking or not given some of what he would say would be outragous and borderline shocking, but of course this was the mischief coming out in him. I have many great memories of Aidan working in TechInf either on installers, the CER Rules Editor or generally anything in the BizInf area. He was a talented engineer who never lost his cool and had a nonchalance demeanour that belied a committed work ethic. The most singular memory I have of Aidan though is one morning when I pulled up beside him in the IBM carpark. We both proceeded to walk in together when as calm as you like, he turned to me and said, “Eh, I think your car has a problem”, and as he pointed down to the deisel that was flowing out from under my car. I immediately started to lose my head, but Aidan kept calm and took over. Long story short, before my car lost all fuel, he followed me as I drove up to a nearby garage and waited while I left the car to be sorted. He waited and brought me back, and was so helpful. He had a heart gold and would genuiney do anything for you, if he could. He got a good laugh when the garage told me rats had eaten through my fuel line, that got a good chuckle out of him! May he rest in peace.