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Newsworthiness: the Dún Laoghaire TD’s now-withdrawn personal injuries claim against a Dublin hotel following a fall from a swing has inflicted major political damage on her – and on Fine Gael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 ...