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Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing
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More like a Shoot your Foot off guru !Ash.J.Williams wrote: »Pat Kenny yesterday was a hoot
he had Maria's pr guru on a panel to talk about issues and he refused to talk about that issue so pat went straight to the other panelists who were eager to talk 0 -
Johnny Dogs wrote: »Something I also found interesting in the interview, (I'm not aware of how a compensation claim works, having never had one).
When challenged about the run, the dates etc, Bailey claimed that the documents weren't finalised before going in front of a judge.
As already said, I'm not familiar with the workings of a compo claim, but am I to understand that a claimant can literally lie through their teeth when making a claim, and if the insurance company buckle's first, and pays out, these lies will practically be unquestioned?
Isn't that legalised thievery if you receive a payout based on lies?
Perhaps that is why it was dropped?
Cannot think of any other reason, she clearly does not do embarassment going by the interview.0 -
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Ash.J.Williams wrote: »Pat Kenny yesterday was a hoot he had Maria's pr guru on a panel to talk about issues and he refused to talk about that issue so pat went straight to the other panelists who were eager to talk
And then the lead story on the news immediately after was quoting him saying I have no comment, I don't want to fan the flames. Comedy gold.0 -
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Plumbthedepths wrote: »Jaysus some article in today's Indo about Maria Bailey. Amazing to think this is one of the top stories for the last two weeks. I'd say Eoghan Murphy can't believe his luck.
The opinion column in the Irish mirror is gold too.
Some extracts.The Dun Laoghaire deputy even features in a video game where a woman on a swing tries to avoid falling beer and wine bottles while attempting to retrieve a bag of cash.
Bailey claimed she was left injured when she fell off a swing at the hotel on Dublin’s Harcourt Street, but last weekend she officially dropped her claim.
She was looking for more than €60,000 from the establishment because the swing wasn’t supervised but it later emerged she ran a 10km race three weeks later.
Had the legal action not been reported all would have been fine and dandy but news of a Fine Gael TD looking for 60 grand compo at a time when businesses are being crucified with bogus claims doesn’t look good.
Indeed, just last month Neil McDonnell, chief executive of ISME which represents small and medium enterprises, told the Oireachtas Finance Committee that spiralling insurance costs were forcing companies to close.
In short, it wasn’t the actual claim that worried the Taoiseach and his ministers; it was the fact one of their own was involved in what many believed to be a very dubious insurance claim.
It also exposed Fine Gael as a party which is big on spin but which is actually doing very little to clamp down on insurance fraud and that’s why Ms Bailey is in so much bother.
Had she managed to keep her claim under the radar, there wouldn’t have been a cross word, but as it stands her so-called friends in the party are removing photos of her from their Facebook pages.
It’s not a case of what she did, it’s a case of what she got caught doing.
The end piece.Her claim that “humanity has been crossed” by the media will live on longer than her dodgy insurance claim against the Dean.
Tory Boy Leo didn’t like it and party bosses were outraged that RTE didn’t warn them she was going on to make a holy show of herself and Fine Gael.
Imagine the arrogance of a party that feels it has the right to be informed by the national broadcaster of who is appearing on a current affairs radio programme.
Her lack of judgment could certainly be called into question but that wouldn’t necessarily come against her as her boss would be the best in that department.
Apparently the party is undertaking an internal review to establish the facts, which is the usual Fine Gael ploy when they don’t want to make a decision.
But the fact the party is worried about reputational damage when it has overseen the near destruction of the health service and is largely responsible for the worst homelessness and housing crisis in the State’s history tells you all you need to know about it.
On the subject of insurance claims, a young lad with an L plate drove into the side of my car during the week, leaving another dent in my old Mondeo.
I caught the accident on my dashcam but as he was only a learner I shook his hand and said he could forget about it.
I should have told him he’s lucky I’m not a member of Fine Gael or his insurance would be going through the roof.0 -
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