If Marian Agrios has any defence, it is that her misapprehension about the acceptability of feathering her own nest reflects treatment of other politicians who have used their position to embellish their homes
are counted next week. For how many votes she gets – if any – may tell us how much, within the honesty box that is the ballot booth, Ireland really cares about integrity in its politicians.
The free gratis enhancement of Agrios’s property revives another house doer-upper ghost from Fine Gael’s past. It is 28 years sincethat the late businessman Ben Dunne funded IR£390,000 renovations to former government minister Michael Lowry’s house in Holy Cross, Co Tipperary. Lowry resigned from the cabinet. Thewas established to, in part, investigate payments from Dunne to politicians. The inquiry took 13 years and cost €77 million.
The mistake they all made was that they got caught. Arigos’s presumption that she would get away with it is as indicative of voters’ ambivalence about low standards in high places as it is of her own hubris. The wording of her purported “apology” on Facebook compounds her offence. “I apologise for what happened. It should not have occurred,” she said, as if some invisible third force was to blame.
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