Profile Maria Bailey: Losing the swing vote
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Name: Maria Bailey
Age:43
Appearance: hard-working fitness fanatic
Newsworthiness: the Dún Laoghaire TD’s now-withdrawn personal injuries claim against a Dublin hotel following a fall from a swing has inflicted major political damage on her – and on Fine Gael
Last Monday evening, new and long-serving Fine Gael councillors on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (DLR) County Council gathered for a local election postmortem in the Goat, a popular south Dublin gastropub.
There was lots to ...