O’Sullivan and Fitzgerald have both been victims of rough justice

I can only imagine what a bittersweet weekend it must have been for Frances Fitzgerald and Nóirín O’Sullivan.

They both now find themselves in quite unique places in Irish political history. Both were hounded out of public office by political pressure.

Both have been accused time and time again. Both have been subject to detailed and rigorous enquiry, in public, into their conduct of office. And both, having lost the careers they treasured (and were good at), have been publicly exonerated.