Maeve Higgins: Why are people like Mick Mulvaney rewarded for failing in politics?

Playing up your Irishness while taking food from the mouths of hungry people isn't a good look for any multimillionaire's son

Mick Mulvaney in Dublin during his stint as Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland. Despite that career ending in ignominy, he has fallen upwards into a new role as a TV pundit. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Mick Mulvaney; to any Irish person, the name sounds familiar. Mick Mulvaney sounds like someone who works with your father, maybe a county hurler from the 1980s, or a guy two years ahead of you in home economics.

Unfortunately, Mick Mulvaney is Irish. Well, he is Irish-American. The absolute worst kind of Irish-American at that. Mulvaney is a former Republican congressman from South Carolina and was a big fish in the stinking pond of the Donald Trump administration.