‘Politicians live by a different set of rules when imprisoned’

POLITICIANS are given time to attend to business and not treated like normal inmates in prison, Liam Lawlor said yesterday.

The former Dublin West TD, who has served three terms in jail for failing to co-operate with the Flood Tribunal, said he supported the jailing of Socialist Party members Joe Higgins, TD, and Councillor Clare Daly.

“It’s very hard on a human level. Councillor Daly has a little three-year-old girl and it’s very hurtful for Joe Higgins’ 84-year-old mother. It is wrong, what has happened in principle, but it has to end that way.”