How do you solve a problem like Olivia?

Olivia Mitchell is the only person in the Dáil against whom adverse findings were made by Mahon. While she was not corrupt, the system was, writes Michael Clifford

HOW do you solve a problem like Olivia? A Fine Gael internal committee is looking into its heart to see how to do exactly that. Olivia Mitchell is the only member of the Dáil against whom negative findings were made in the Mahon Report. The party is determining whether to give a fig about the findings, to dispute them, or to show total respect for the conclusions of a body set up by the Oireachtas.

The tribunal found that when Mitchell was a member of Dublin County Council she inappropriately accepted a £500 political donation from the lobbyist, and star tribunal witness, Frank Dunlop.