Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing

Suckit

The interview today, she seemed to think that the damage that she had done was minimal. I wonder if her father gave her advice to do the interview, because nobody else in FG knew about it. She waited until after the local election results to give the interview.

SOR: Coming right up to yesterday, the Taoiseach said on The This Week programme, Leo Varadkar, your party leader, that you had done the party reputational damage as a result of the publicity surrounding this case in the run up to the election. What do you say to that?

MB: I think yesterday was a big day for a lot of people and a very tough day for people who weren’t elected. I stand firm in the belief that I take responsibility in the sense that my name was on this case.

I don’t take responsibility that three weeks prior this being leaked that this wasn’t a deliberate attempt to have massive impact in the last week of the election on this party.

Yesterday and the day before, the Greens did absolutely well, a clear message was sent to us to act faster on this issue [climate change]. In my own constituency we retained the seats that we have.

SOR: So you’re saying you didn’t do the party reputational damage?

MB: No, I didn’t say that. What he said was it would be hard to quantify. Sean I am a long time in politics. I looked at the exit polls, and the main reason that people vote for local politicians in local elections, not normally national issues, but in this case partially it was, it was on meeting the candidate.

It was on their work ethic, it was on what they were going to deliver for their community. They were the main reason why people voted for their local candidates.

If it was minimal before the interview, surely she has blown all of her chances out of the water now.

McMurphy

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Leo is a chicken poo who can’t make a decision either way. What’s the bets he make her resign so no comeback on him....just in case the working mothers come after him

Which if he had any backbone he would know they won’t because she is an embarrassment to all women, not just working mothers

From what I understand, Leo can't make her resign, and she clearly has previous when it comes to going legal with employers etc so can't see him booting her out either.

Wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if she's paid off on the Q.T.

money seems to be the centre of her world after all.

Bunny Colvin

branie2 wrote: »

This is going to be talked about on Clare Byrne Live tonight

Just stuck it on now. Cheers.

angel eyes 2012

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Any journalist, If they are good, should be slipping someone a few quid to keep an eye out for cases that might involve politicians etc....

From everything she said on radio she never expected this to get to court and just expected a hand out from the insurance company....silly b**ch

Circuit Court lists are published online prior to any civil sittings, again nothing stopping journalists particularly court reporters perusing the lists in advance to check of any cases of interest involving public figures - so nothing to see here.

The media aren't always correct but fair play to the Indo for highlighting this case from the start and it is an excellent example as to why we need to keep supporting traditional journalism to ensure that facts are reported and dishonourable conduct by public figures is highlighted when necessary.

Shemale

Christ just listened there, that was a class interview. I love the way she kept shoehorning integrity into everything and then when talking about Leo she tried say it again and switched to integral.

€7,000 worth of medical expenses and able to run 10km 3 weeks later

California Dreamer

https://www.change.org/p/gardasiochana-a-petition-for-the-arrest-and-investigation-of-maria-bailey-for-attempted-insurance-fraud?recruiter=965701078&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=tap_basic_share

Franz Von Peppercorn II

That interview was insane.

SOR: Just clarify one thing, did you have something in each hand when this happened?

MB: That would have been a case for the judge to adjudicate on ...

Insane. She couldn’t answer a simple question,was the victim throughout and even seemed to imply that the legal team somehow managed to coerce her into the case.

Roger_007

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

Just stuck it on now. Cheers.

Just listening to her again..........definitely intoxicated........she was slurring her words.

Bunny Colvin

Roger_007 wrote: »

Just listening to her again..........definitely intoxicated........she was slurring her words.

'Humanity has been crossed', no sober person would say that

whistlebl0wer

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

'Humanity has been crossed', no sober person would say that

Ah there's no doubt, you can hear her pouring a glass at the start sure!

Snow Garden

It's quite astonishing that this is the biggest story right in the middle of a Local and European election.

Suckit

I wonder if her father was the person advising her.

Sir Oxman

She's made the boss and his organisation look real bad.

That should be the end of her.

Shefwedfan

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

From what I understand, Leo can't make her resign, and she clearly has previous when it comes to going legal with employers etc so can't see him booting her out either.

Wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if she's paid off on the Q.T.

money seems to be the centre of her world after all.

He can dump her from FG, he can’t get rid of her as a politician as she has been voted in

Simple_Simone

Her Lordship has her say:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/miriam-lord-fall-gal-maria-bailey-sees-dark-forces-at-play-1.3906328

(nice picture of Maria too!)

".................... Watching Maria and PR man Paul Allen on the news leaving RTÉ, the words of Fr Ted after the disastrous visit of three bishops to Craggy Island came to mind: “Went pretty well, I thought.”"

smurgen

She wasn't far off margaret cash levels of hysteria at times hahaha.

angel eyes 2012

Suckit wrote: »

I wonder if her father was the person advising her.

Himself and Padraig "three housekeepers, try it sometime" Flynn.

Itssoeasy

Ivan Yates has the jokes to open the tonight show.

GiftofGab

Did i hear that she took out a previous compo claim against Aer Lingus for getting headaches while she was working there??
She's a nasty piece of work.

Itssoeasy

GiftofGab wrote: »

Did i hear that she took out a previous compo claim against Aer Lingus for getting headaches while she was working there??
She's a nasty piece of work.

No idea I’ve never heard that story.

holyhead

Maria Bailey needs to do the following

1. Take down her Facebook page immediately.
2. Resign as a TD immediately.
3. Apologize to the Irish people for gross errors of judgment.
4. Apologize to the Hotel for a spurious claim. Pay them compensation for the hassle she has caused them.
5. Forfeit any post Dail income/pension she is legally entitled to if any.
6. Stay away from media interviews be they written or verbal
7. Keep a low profile from now on.

mr_edge_to_you

I'd imagine the FG chiefs are fuming. While the local elections weren't the most successful for the party nor were they a disaster, there was probably a massive opportunity to put the political boot into Sinn Fein given the collapse of their vote. Leo's new found enthusiasm for climate change has been overshadowed. So now, there's no positive outcome for them.

I'd say Mary Lou is delighted with herself!

smurgen

holyhead wrote: »

Maria Bailey needs to do the following

1. Take down her Facebook page immediately.
2. Resign as a TD immediately.
3. Apologize to the Irish people for gross errors of judgment.
4. Apologize to the Hotel for a spurious claim. Pay them compensation for the hassle she has caused them.
5. Forfeit any post Dail income/pension she is legally entitled to if any.
6. Stay away from media interviews be they written or verbal
7. Keep a low profile from now on.

More chance of hell freezing over.she feels wronged!

ChikiChiki

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Leo is a chicken poo who can’t make a decision either way. What’s the bets he make her resign so no comeback on him....just in case the working mothers come after him

Which if he had any backbone he would know they won’t because she is an embarrassment to all women, not just working mothers

I'd say the FG shysters are up to their necks in allsorts and have dirt on each other. Will be very telling if they don't get rid. She may resign from the party to save face and try a come back in a few years.

I was very enthusiastic about them in 2011 but they have really shown themselves to be disengaged from the real world and the people they supposedly represent.

Roger_007

holyhead wrote: »

Maria Bailey needs to do the following

1. Take down her Facebook page immediately.
2. Resign as a TD immediately.
3. Apologize to the Irish people for gross errors of judgment.
4. Apologize to the Hotel for a spurious claim. Pay them compensation for the hassle she has caused them.
5. Forfeit any post Dail income/pension she is legally entitled to if any.
6. Stay away from media interviews be they written or verbal
7. Keep a low profile from now on.

Dont hold your breath on any of those things happening......... This is Ireland.

homerjay2005

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

All she had to say was 'I got bad advice that I followed and I'm deeply sorry for taking this course of action'.

this is exactly it....she needs to not only consider her own position but also, those of her PR team and her solicitor and anybody around her advising them.

says alot about her legal team that they advised her to make a claim when she clearly fell off it because of her own actions, added to the fact that her injuries were not substantial enough to make a claim.

bizzare, bizzare situation.

yaboya1

She is done, but the longer she stays the more damage she does to the party.
So, if/when they get hit in the next election they'll have no one to blame but themselves.
They need to get rid asap.

holyhead

Roger_007 wrote: »

Dont hold your breath on any of those things happening......... This is Ireland.

If Varadkar had any political nous he would use this as an opportunity to comprehensively institute root and branch reform of legal system to tackle the rampant compensation culture which is crippling businesses in this country.

If she is not turfed out of FG and hasn't resigned as a TD by the weekend then Varadkar needs to look at his own position. She has humiliated the party to the point where it may fatally damage them at the next G.E. if she doesn't get hunted double quick.

yaboya1

holyhead wrote: »

If Varadkar had any political nous he would use this as an opportunity to comprehensively institute root and branch reform of legal system to tackle the rampant compensation culture which is crippling businesses in this country.

If she is not turfed out of FG and hasn't resigned as a TD by the weekend then Varadkar needs to look at his own position. She has humiliated the party to the point where it may fatally damage them at the next G.E. if she doesn't get hunted double quick.

Agree. It reflects badly on his leadership if he doesn't get rid asap.
The longer she stays, the worse the party will suffer.

ChikiChiki

Simple_Simone wrote: »

Her Lordship has her say:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/miriam-lord-fall-gal-maria-bailey-sees-dark-forces-at-play-1.3906328

(nice picture of Maria too!)

".................... Watching Maria and PR man Paul Allen on the news leaving RTÉ, the words of Fr Ted after the disastrous visit of three bishops to Craggy Island came to mind: “Went pretty well, I thought.”"

From the article

"We remembered Enda Kenny’s famous story about meeting “the man with two pints” in his hands and wondered what fate would have befallen the gentleman had he been sitting on a swing at the time. Would Enda have caught his fall?"

Sheep breeder

holyhead wrote: »

Maria Bailey needs to do the following

1. Take down her Facebook page immediately.
2. Resign as a TD immediately.
3. Apologize to the Irish people for gross errors of judgment.
4. Apologize to the Hotel for a spurious claim. Pay them compensation for the hassle she has caused them.
5. Forfeit any post Dail income/pension she is legally entitled to if any.
6. Stay away from media interviews be they written or verbal
7. Keep a low profile from now on.

Come on here Leo will do nothing and hope this goes away quickly, and will be voted in again and probably top the poll.

Pissartist

yaboya1 wrote: »

Agree. It reflects badly on his leadership if he doesn't get rid asap.
The longer she stays, the worse the party will suffer.

Well they have quotas for women so that mightn't be easy.

Macdarack

Stop moaning ffs wrote: »

Just listened back. My poor ears. Not defending her
But she doesn’t sound entirely sober.

Contradicts herself several times and her story several times and the whole ‘Sean, Sean, Sean’ Bit.

Like that drunk wagon you meet in a smoking area who decides to share their drama with you over a smoke and you can’t escape them.

Wonder if she’ll dig up and say the interview took place after drink was taken and under severe stress


Would anyone be surprised?

I thought she had drink on her, did she mention getting plasters at the reception, did she suffer lacerations during her "fall".?

Snow Garden

Fine Gael refused to let anyone on the Tonight Show because of Swing-gate. It's mad really.

mickdw

holyhead wrote: »

Maria Bailey needs to do the following

1. Take down her Facebook page immediately.
2. Resign as a TD immediately.
3. Apologize to the Irish people for gross errors of judgment.
4. Apologize to the Hotel for a spurious claim. Pay them compensation for the hassle she has caused them.
5. Forfeit any post Dail income/pension she is legally entitled to if any.
6. Stay away from media interviews be they written or verbal
7. Keep a low profile from now on.

We may see her forced to do number 6 and 7 for a few months but as for the rest, zero chance.

Harry Palmr

Need to see more of these

https://twitter.com/ClodaghShortall/status/1131296834117361670

Autosport

Going to be talking about this on the tonight show

yaboya1

Pissartist wrote: »

Well they have quotas for women so that mightn't be easy.

Sack one of the useless men in the party too to balance it out. Shouldn't be too difficult to find one. The mirror would be a good start.

Idbatterim

yaboya1 wrote: »

Sack one of the useless men in the party too to balance it out. Shouldn't be too difficultthe to find one. The mirror would be a good start.

It’s beyond laughable. Varadkar is presiding over more scandals than Maria Bailey could ever dream up!!!

Yet he is the one doling our the law and order. Do the country a Favour and ditch fg the next election. The arrogance , smugness and failure is too much!

holyhead

Her Facebook page is filled with bile against her. Brave people considering her willingness to resort to litigation.

headtheball14

Can I just say sincere thanks to Maria Bailey and fine Gael today. I have been a bit down lately and I can not remember a day in the recent past when I laughed so much.
It's been a tonic .
I'm still enjoying the tweets the videos and the radio on this.

spurshero

Sheep breeder wrote: »

Come on here Leo will do nothing and hope this goes away quickly, and will be voted in again and probably top the poll.

She will never see another dail term . No chance . She Probaly won’t even run . She s knows her time is done deep down

spurshero

headtheball14 wrote: »

Can I just say sincere thanks to Maria Bailey and fine Gael today. I have been a bit down lately and I can not remember a day in the recent past when I laughed so much.
It's been a tonic .
I'm still enjoying the tweets the videos and the radio on this.

Keep the good side out . There’s always somebody worse off

RacoonQueen

Simple_Simone wrote: »

Her Lordship has her say:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/miriam-lord-fall-gal-maria-bailey-sees-dark-forces-at-play-1.3906328

(nice picture of Maria too!)

".................... Watching Maria and PR man Paul Allen on the news leaving RTÉ, the words of Fr Ted after the disastrous visit of three bishops to Craggy Island came to mind: “Went pretty well, I thought.”"

That interview was an awful advertisement for Paul Allen's services.

homerjay2005 wrote: »

this is exactly it....she needs to not only consider her own position but also, those of her PR team and her solicitor and anybody around her advising them.

says alot about her legal team that they advised her to make a claim when she clearly fell off it because of her own actions, added to the fact that her injuries were not substantial enough to make a claim.

bizzare, bizzare situation.

The fact Madigan's family firm where representing her bothers me too. Means her family/firm/brother stood to benefit financially from this claim.

If she does not stand down, she needs to be stripped of her seat by the rest of Dáil Éireann. Make an example of her and show that insurance fraud is not tolerated. At least give us the impression they're not all con artists whilst there is a general election looming.

But sure we are only irked because.."I'm a strong female politician and some people don't like that".

TomOnBoard

If she had any honour, she would resign her position as Chair of the Oireachtas Housing Committee (Wow! Is that not a massively successful job being done by that lot!!), getting almost €10k immediately.

As to whether she should stand again as a TD, well that's up to selection procedures etc.

She totally ****ed up and needs to be seen to atone!

That said, someone also needs to look at whether her statements that went to/or were prepared for Court were made under oath, and if so, did any Perjury occur?

NIMAN

Like the way she used the fact that she's a woman to try to save her skin, hoping that any people attacking her would be seen as sexist.

But shes obviously so thick that she doesn't realise that this has nothing to do with gender. More the fact that she is trying to get €60k when €7k was needed, and by definition will drive insurance costs up, all while her party are claiming they don't like the claim culture.

Idiot.

Calhoun

Simple_Simone wrote: »

Her Lordship has her say:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/miriam-lord-fall-gal-maria-bailey-sees-dark-forces-at-play-1.3906328

(nice picture of Maria too!)

".................... Watching Maria and PR man Paul Allen on the news leaving RTÉ, the words of Fr Ted after the disastrous visit of three bishops to Craggy Island came to mind: “Went pretty well, I thought.”"

This was really well written and gave me a laugh, the ending line is brilliant. Honest to god i don't know why she brought that PR guy because he didnt do his job.

Paddy The Pirate

She fell off a swing. She's a bit of bítch, she's a money grabbing wánkér, and it's a reflection on us as a society that she's gotten as far as she has

TomOnBoard

NIMAN wrote: »

Like the way she used the fact that she's a woman to try to save her skin, hoping that any people attacking her would be seen as sexist.

But shes obviously so thick that she doesn't realise that this has nothing to do with gender. More the fact that she is trying to get €60k when €7k was needed, and by definition will drive insurance costs up, all while her party are claiming they don't like the claim culture.

Idiot.

Even the 7K was hardly needed! She told Sean O Rourke that she has Private Health Insurance.. So the rest of us have already paid her costs!

Such hypocracy, when folks with feck all are being outed (rightly so) for illegitimate slip/fall/whiplash claims daily,and HER GOVERNMENT said it would stamp out nefarious claims....

Well, Maria Nefarious Baily seriously need to check the mirror to establish who the phuk is living behind her face!

Itssoeasy

I mean how she thought going on national radio today and not giving her party the heads up so they'd at least be prepared to react to it if asked doesn't seem to have gone down well with FG.

Also, IF doing what she did today was a good idea, what possessed her to pick Sean O rourke who to me is the best presenter RTÉ have I'll never know. I mean she could have gone on the news at one or any other show and it might not have been any better but it might not have been as bad as it turned out.