The whole affair is a bad advertisement for making friends in Fine Gael.
Fine Gael, clearly, is not a happy political party. And the blame for that starts at the very top.
Christmas is over, and it’s that time of year when we reflect on the year that has just passed, and what happened in it. In that spirit, here are the five politicians who we think had the best 2019, and the five who had the worst. Note: We’re primarily concerned with Ireland here, but of […]
Last night, Fine Gael members in her Dun Laoghaire constituency voted, in effect, to boot Maria Bailey from the Fine Gael ticket for the next General Election, whenever that might come: The meeting last night heard from Deputy Bailey and her detractors, with some calling for her removal from the party ticket. A majority voted […]
An Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said that Maria Bailey TD should “be allowed to move on” after “paying a “very heavy price for making a mistake”, following renewed criticism of the Fine Gael TD as it emerged that she was forced to hand back expenses to the Dáil. The Dun Laoghaire TD grabbed the headlines […]
Two Fine Gael TDs, Maria Bailey and Alan Farrell, made unjustifiable claims amounting to €6,000, with Farrell claiming that the €4,214.79 he must pay back was claimed for work done in 2016, but invoiced in early 2017.
I’ll be honest, I spent a good ten minutes trying to think up a good “swing” joke to greet this news with, and I came up short. “Swings and Roundabouts” was about the best I managed, and that’s just lame. I suppose you can’t have someone who’s now associated, rightly or wrongly, in the public […]