Sean O'Rourke Today Show

I'm only finding out about this whole 'story' now listening back to podcast.
She said at least twice that the hotel had agreed to pay for the costs, what happened to this?
At end Sean said hotel has denied any liability.

The whole thing sounds like a sham from multiple sides.
I've never heard of Mary before, and this definitely wouldn't encourage me to vote for her

I'm somewhat ok with her claiming back medical costs, which is very different to making a compensation claim of 60k.

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Where in the pantheon of Irish political interview balls up over the years does Maria Bailey's performance rank ?

Up there with Willie O'Dea who after being caught slagging off a SF councillor, faced with full onslaught from SOR, Willie declared he was the victim in all this......nearly crashed the car I was laughing that much.

Priceless radio

Maria and Willie forgot the basics.....when you're already in a hole, stop digging

humberklog wrote: »

Wasn't SO'R's opening line to Willie- "You're a dirty fighter!".

I think so, have been looking for the audio but can't get it.
With the rain and thunder, would be a good laugh for a miserable Monday afternoon.

I was listening live and heard this one come on and I said to meself, I'm not going to listen to this eejit, so I turned over to Pat. When Pat went on a break I turned back, and boy was I sorry I hadn't listened to the whole thing. Absolutely feckin' hilarious! I'm going to podacast it later - we can all do with a laugh.

Anyway, what was funny also was the reactions of the others - when Regina Doherty says that you are coming across as entitled, you know that you're doing something wrong!

Tidbit that you SOR listeners mightn't have picked up today - Pat said that there is a rumour that the hotel has CCTV of the incident. Now, that would be interesting to see ...

Who was Terence? It doesn't ring a bell with me.

elperello wrote: »

This guy.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/renua-ireland-s-terence-flanagan-has-mental-blank-on-radio-1.2139165

Ah poor Terence ... Mary being so gentle with him nearly made it worse.

Mannix Flynn just elected at the 10th count to the last seat in dublin North inner city.... five more years of him on the live line... whoop de doo !

if it wasn't for the exposure he gets on the liveline he wouldn't have a hope of election .... musnt be as active on the ground as he likes to make out .

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Up there with poor Terence...

And Joe Jacob and the iodine tablets

mzungu wrote: »

I would disagree here. From the parts she divulged in the interview earlier, it is pretty clear that this was her fault it happened. Plus, she was well able to run a 10k a few weeks after it so any injuries can't have been that bad. She doesn't deserve a penny.

And she said she had private medical insurance so what possible bills could she have had that added up to 7k.

Most you have to pay with medical insurance is the excess of a few hundred maybe, tops.

Unless she went to Mater Private, no way did she spend 7k.

I think there are no winners, and nobody that comes out of this well.

Bailey should not have come in to studio if she was not prepared to answer questions about the swing incident. When she refused to answer the question about what she hand in her hands when she was sitting on the swing, she immediately looked shifty and having something to hide. If she wanted to get people on her side, she needed to honestly put her case forward as to why her case was legitimate, but she did not do this.

Irresponsible of RTE to allow Alison O'Connor to immediately set the narrative as soon as she had left the studio. The media have a lot of questions to answer about the timing of when they chose to publish the story, how exactly they got the story, the whole tone of their reporting (which presumed the guilt, not innocence, before the trial had taken place), and how they hounded Maria Bailey and her family. RTE present this panel of reporters as supposed objective commentators, but this is a group of friends defending their own stories.

Lastly, I don't know how McDowall is getting off Scott free here. this is his speech from the Seanad.

I just wonder how McDowall would have felt if a member of the Dail had ridiculed one of his clients, Ted Walsh perhaps, in front of a national audience before the trial had even started. RTE didn't seem to want to allow any questioning of his actions.

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

I think there are no winners, and nobody that comes out of this well.

Bailey should not have come in to studio if she was not prepared to answer questions about the swing incident. When she refused to answer the question about what she hand in her hands when she was sitting on the swing, she immediately looked shifty and having something to hide. If she wanted to get people on her side, she needed to honestly put her case forward as to why her case was legitimate, but she did not do this.

Irresponsible of RTE to allow Alison O'Connor to immediately set the narrative as soon as she had left the studio. The media have a lot of questions to answer about the timing of when they chose to publish the story, how exactly they got the story, the whole tone of their reporting (which presumed the guilt, not innocence, before the trial had taken place), and how they hounded Maria Bailey and her family. RTE present this panel of reporters as supposed objective commentators, but this is a group of friends defending their own stories.

Lastly, I don't know how McDowall is getting off Scott free here. this is his speech from the Seanad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAPBkx5GcPc

I just wonder how McDowall would have felt if a member of the Dail had ridiculed one of his clients, Ted Walsh perhaps, in front of a national audience before the trial had even started. RTE didn't seem to want to allow any questioning of his actions.

What's wrong with that speech? Nothing at all, it's all the truth.

Also what trial?? This is not a criminal case, at least not yet....