Ok well maybe *some* of it was Clodaghs fault but....
So she finally goes down at 9.30pm (after trying since 6.30pm
), sleeps til 1230pm and then wakes for her usual BF. Fine. I put her back in her cot and she goes straight back to sleep. Great. Get back to bed, lie down, get comfy, then WWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH screaming! I leave her for 5 min but no it gets worse so up I go...think she had a bad dream or something lol. So I re-settle her and she goes back down....by 1am I'm back in bed and about to sleep.
What seems like a few minutes later- but is actually 3am- I hear an angry woman's voice outside my bedroom window yelling 'What the f&*% are you doing? Don't F%^&ing y touch her!' 
I wake up fully and realise there's a huge 3-way domestic going on just outside our (thankfully 6ft) fence. I get up and call the cops cos it's getting nasty, I try to be quiet but CLodagh wakes up and starts to cry poor thing...DF deals with her while I"m on the phone.
Police turn up and it goes quiet for a while. Then the man who was beating his GF starts resitsting arrest so the police start using their tricks or whatever to subdue him all the time his GF is now screaming at THEM that they'er gonna kill him and they're strangling him and all we want in our house is a little bit of peice. 
Oncce it's all over Clodagh is completely awake and 100% sure it's time to play.at 4am. She doesn't settle till 5am and by that stage I'm so wound up by her, by the domestic and by DF's snoring I give the whole thing up as a bad job.
lol. sigh.