Drive on Mary and don’t be so hard on yourself

WASN’T it so refreshing to hear an Irish politician being so honest over the radiowaves yesterday?

Less than 24 hours after she mistakenly drove her Hyundai Coupe along the length of the pedestrian- only plinth in Leinster House and then bumped down steps on the other side, Fine Gael TD Mary Mitchell-O’Connor recounted her side of the story in a series of radio interviews.

Normally it’s near impossible to pull an apology from an errant TD, but Mary was falling over herself to apologise.