Harney’s hairdo is trivial compared to the way she has failed taxpayers

While Mary Harney’s hairdo is attracting the spotlight, the more serious question about the gift of the glass barometer to Mary Hanafin is being largely ignored...

Fás squandered $437 on the barometer and a further €419 sending it back to Ireland. Thus around €800 was misappropriated in this one instance

SOME of the Fine Gael criticism of Mary Harney getting a wash and blowdry in Florida smacked of cynical opportunism, especially the nonsense about her not clarifying that she she got her hair done in Florida in 2004.