TD withdraws compensation case: The right call

Though Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey has decided to withdraw a €60,000 claim against a hotel after falling off an indoor swing during an evening out with friends she may, in the fullness of time, regret ever taking it.

She may not, like J Bruce Ismay, owner of the Titanic, feel the need to spend the rest of her life in seclusion in Connemara after the unsinkable ship sank.