Senator quit over failure to clinch EU post
That she owed her one national public office to such a source and yet now rails against the Green’s becoming “no more than an extension of the Fianna Fáil party” is indeed a rich irony.
It is quite clear, even from her own self-serving account of her departure from politics, that it was prompted by her non-appointment to Maire Geoghegan-Quinn’s Brussels cabinet.
