But look at her record in office: What, exactly, has she achieved?
Current events prove, without much equivocation, that a great many people owe the former President an apology.
Over the last decade, Fine Gael has bent the knee to these people daily, on almost every issue.
The protests are becoming a revolt not simply against vaccine mandates, but against the established political consensus.
Senator Doherty’s bill does not really accomplish much
Unless this problem magically disappears all by itself, then politicians – and we, the public – are in line for a whole world of pain
But the bottom line, at this stage, is that Irish coverage of Boris Johnson has grown demented.
Since 2016, in fact, increases in rent in RPZs has been limited to 4% per year, or the rate of inflation.
And it is not only morally wrong: It is also economically illiterate
A party of the people? No more.
The image of an elderly man crawling on hands and knees to find help, his shoelaces tied together in an act of horrible cruelty, should have us determined to change something.
For example, it would be unthinkable that the new dress code for the Gardai would be extended to the judiciary.