Tonight.
Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey released the statement above after her party’s National Executive Council announced earlier that it was deselecting her as a candidate for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown in the next general election.
Maria Bailey deselected as Fine Gael election candidate (RTÉ)
Earlier: Set In Motion
Previously: ‘I Found Myself On The Floor’
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They didnt swing her way…
Comic Sans makes for a fitting denouement to the whole saga.
Beyond parody.
Delighted
She left the way she began… fired with enthusiasm.
Whoever typed that up must hate her too!
What’s coming next is ten times worse
About her or another FGer?
You didn’t include a link with your clickbait!
What a cry baby
Terrible letter writer too
Real teacher’s pet head girl tone about it
I doubt she’ll be signing on tho’
Pet head girl is exactly what the big parties want.
In the future 50 per cent of FG/FF TDs will look and sound like Maria Bailey.
Progress?!?
Comic Sans? Seriously?
+1994
Finally.
But what a terribly punctuated and presented letter.
Tomorrow’s cocktails for me is a Baileys sans Comic on the Rocks followed by a Singapore Swing.
Hasn’t learned, still making excuses, not owning up to bad judgement. But enough about Fianna Fail continuing with Michael Martin.
Pet head girl is exactly what the big parties want.
In the future 50 per cent of FG/FF TDs will look and sound like Maria Bailey.
Progress?!?
Great headline. And yes, Comic Sans, someone must be taking the piss. Brilliant.
Presumably she’s a nice little nest egg put away.
Oh, wait…
Farrell I’m pretty sure will be decapitated at the next election by the good people of swords.
that just leaves madigan. she may slither her way out of this yet!
Interesting that the two politicians who topped the league in ‘overstated ‘ expenses were Farrell and Bailey.
do as I say not as I do
And Alan Farrel?
Must have deleted the word Bell from the last line.
Excellent.
Just when they were ramping up their ‘blame the little man’ spin about compo claims jacking up insurance premiums- along come two pints Maria falling off a toy swing- EXCATLY the sort of thing they were trying to punch down with.
Along comes Maria two pints Bailey perjuring herself by making a false affidavit to Court.
Before this thread travels further
Just want to say
Savage header Bodger
Definitely one for the 2019 shortlist
Agreed and also thanks for the suggestion of looking at her tweet replies. Amazing.
Apologies for diverting traffic Broadsheet
However the replies here https://twitter.com/MariaBaileyFG/status/1195086903705579529?s=19
Are definitely required reading
Oh how I laughed at the Comic Sans. *chef’s kiss emoji*
Amazed, and also delighted, to see so many people have latched onto this.
This clearly didn’t make it past the Spin Unit…
Or maybe it did intentionally?
All this makes for a pretty Good Friday, dunnit.
Hopefully she’s now Dundrumming up support for her cause, accept that she’s been given the Booterstown and just Stepaside.
Could the Comic Sans have been a deliberate ploy, so that the twitterers would take the piss out of that, rather than mentioning her attempted insurance fraud again.
Here’s the font she should have used
http://www.identifont.com/similar?DXV
(not taking credit, found on the twitter thread)
Was she dragged along to the Dail chambers yesterday to vote with FG in a miserable failed attempt to stop a public enquiry into Shane o Farrell? A shower of two faced ghouls that heap abuse and further misery on law abiding Lucia & Jim O Farrell —- hypocrisy at its best from FG.
http://www.mariabailey.ie
redirects to
https://cllrmariabailey.wordpress.com/
which has no content.
Has she cleared it out in anticipation of running for councillor again?
Or does she just have nothing to say for herself?
Maria Bailey showed very poor judgement indeed and paid a heavy price. But if anyone thinks this is about FG being honest and wanting to deal with #CompoCulture you need to sanitycheck how you think local politics work. It’s more to do with some numpties losing seats and others wanting a seat at the trough.
Suddenly the world is full of Windows 95 era font experts making the life of a woman, wife, and mother even more hellish that she deserves.
Meanwwhile, the focus moves off real issues.
DLR has three FG TDs. No constituency needs 3 FG TDs. No constituency needs 1 FG TD, so copy yourselves on about what’s important.