Deirdre Conroy (left) and Croatia-born actor Goran Visnjic as Luka Kovač in TV drama ER

This morning/afternoon.

In February 2013 Conroy, having already let one room in her Clonskeagh home, met a “handsome” prospective tenant for another she’d put on the rental market. In a blog she kept at the time titled Diary of a Dublin Landlady, she gave this man the nickname “Kovac” in reference to ER character Dr Luka Kovač

….By the end of March, Conroy had found a replacement tenant: “I am especially relieved with my current lodgers, after the Latvian experience, better to stick with what you know if you have to share your house,” she wrote…

…Conroy took issue with “Kovac” receiving Child Benefit, despite it being his right under European Union law…

“It will take the property tax of six houses in this cul-de-sac to meet the annual child benefit to one 5-year old in Latvia, where they will be getting their own benefit anyway, and that’s just one child living abroad.”

Ōh,

‘Better to stick with what you know’: Fianna Fáil byelection candidate on letting room to Latvian worker (The Ditch)

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17 thoughts on “Er…

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      bites tounge, goes back to gardening, the roots will get a good hold in the rain

      1. Rob_G

        yes. I’m not familiar with the blog, which the ditch doesn’t link to (fancy that), but from the tone it seems like the Ditch has taken things said in an ironic manner (“[Conroy] considered letting her linen cupboard to a student“, “… you can’t stop someone eating, can you? I’ll be banning it the next time.”*), and suggesting that these are things that actually happened, or that Conroy steadfastedly believes.

        *direct quote, but my emphasis

  1. Redundant Proofreaders Society

    The ER character, Luka Kovač, was Croatian. So what’s with the Latvian link?

    Either way, if her tenants receive child benefit, what business is it of a landlady?

  2. PointofOrder

    Are we meant to be outraged by something here? She didn’t do or say anything ‘wrong’.

    1. gringo

      Na, nothing the Fine Failures do outrage us any more. We are highly amused that they would consider that eegit to be a suitable candidate for the Dail. Their impulse for self-destruction gets ever stronger, though in fairness that promo clip with Jim O Callaghan is pure comedy gold.

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