Creighton highlights her own party’s utter hypocrisy

FAIR play to Lucinda Creighton for highlighting the utter hypocrisy of Fine Gael attacking Fianna Fáil over its unhealthy wheeling and dealing with property developers and reliance on lavish corporate fundraising events while being obviously partial to similar means of financing its own party machine.

It is not so long since FG deputies and senators were tripping over themselves as they lined up to shriek with indignation at the “outrageous” and “inappropriate” Galway tent, lambasting the very idea of all those corporate big shots rubbing shoulders with the Fianna Fáil top brass.

Now we see how alike the two largest parties really are. For what is the difference between doing it in a tent on a racecourse and staging colossal fundraisers for your party at the plush K Club? “Cute-hoorism” can thrive in either locale. Some commentators have criticised Ms Creighton’s remarks as “ill-timed”. Surely it was the timing of the marathon fundraiser that was inapt? All those guys swaggering about against a background of opulence and bulging wallets while so many Irish people are struggling to pay for food and electricity, or are coping with the nightmare of negative equity. What starkly contrasting images.