Mary Hanafin tries hard to whip up a storm

As the seasonal summer rain storm lashed the little Donegal town of Glenties, former cabinet minister (and wanna-be future Fianna Fáil leader) Mary Hanafin was raising the temperature with a risqué (for her) quip with saucy overtones.
“I had the pleasure of being government chief whip between 2002 and 2004, I was the first female whip, and you have no idea the number of male TDs who told me they were looking forward to being whipped by a woman. I had my very own 50 Shades Of Grey,” she said to an audience whose age and political profile made the hall resemble a day room in a decidedly right-wing old people’s home.