When Maria Bailey talked to Sean O’Rourke yesterday those of us tuning in live were dumbstruck by what we heard.
She only opened her mouth to put the other foot in.
It was appalling, yet addictive, listening. An entry into the mindset of the entitled, who take no responsibility, who believe everything in life is someone else’s fault.
The epitome of the spiralling victimhood viewpoint that has led to a compensation crisis.
Coming from a Fine Gael TD the party message it gave was: “We’ll rake in the big bucks while the little people pay.”
If you snot yourself off a swing because you’re holding a bottle of beer in one hand and reaching for a bottle of wine with the other, you’ve nobody to blame but yourself.
By going rogue she demonstrated an arrogance that surpassed Pee Flynn’s career-ending hubris on The Late Late Show in 1999.
Commentator Alison O’Connor told O’Rourke at the end of yesterday’s interview: “In over a quarter of a century of covering politics, I don’t think I ever heard anything like it.”
The whole country agrees that compo culture is harming society.
If Ms Bailey can’t see this she is so out of touch she has no place in Irish politics.
