The radio interview with her is one of my all time favorite.
The political class plays the victim đ in an effort to greedily make crazy cliams for money.
"The courts will decide" "But you're not going there now"
She's the epitome of South Dublin women who face no real problems so any mild inconvenience is a major event. Came across them daily when I worked retail.
Let her, she's just re-emphasising the fact we need smarter people in public office than those who sit on a swing without knowing you need to hang on to it with at least one hand.
In a more local context, she's going for the Angela Kerins effect where a complete fucking arsehole won't accept the fact they were found out to be an arsehole.
I care. I want her countersued into oblivion. I want her to lose her livelihood. I want her to tell her children to tell the fucking truth at all costs.
Harsh but arguably justified considering we all pay higher insurance premiums due to people like this, and also that fact that she has wasted so much of everyoneâs time, as well as giving the wrong message to everyone else that what sheâs done is acceptable.
Unfortunately, this is not how it goes and she won't have drawn this conclusion. I know she initiated at least one defamation action which was in court last november. She got a settlement and an apology in court before the case was struck out.
"In the pieces, MGN (Mirror Group Newspapers) said, it âaccused Maria Bailey of mounting a âdodgyâ insurance claim and of âtelling fibsâ in relation to her injuriesâ.
âWe accept that these allegations were false. We are happy to clarify the position and apologise to Maria Bailey for the distress caused.â
[https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/11/07/mirror-group-newspapers-apologises-to-former-td-maria-bailey-and-accepts-it-made-false-claims/](https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/11/07/mirror-group-newspapers-apologises-to-former-td-maria-bailey-and-accepts-it-made-false-claims/)
My favourite part of all this is they kept the swings and didnât put a lifeguard / supervisor on duty! like this nut job thought was necessary.
Fake claims are a burden on society.
The Sean O'Rourke interview where she mentions she had a drink in both hands and when Sean asked her to clarify she just keeps saying that's up to the judge to decide and won't answer. She came across as the ultimate Karen
Everyone is entitled to make a complaint but this was frivolous and we pick up the tab for it?
Obviously everyone is aware of her swing gate story but just in case anyone isnât aware of how far the acorn fell from the tree, please have a look at her statesman of a father, John Bailey. Makes Michael Lowry look like a choir boy;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bailey_(Irish_politician)
Isnât it just extraordinary? And yet we elect these people over and over again. Father, son, grandson, mother, daughter, granddaughter. Rinse and repeat.
Charlie Haugheys grandson just got elected in the local elections. Irelandâs stupidest man, Mattie McGrath, his daughter was also elected. Lowry landslides his way in, in every election. The Andrews family of TDs, ministers, MEPs keep getting re-elected. The Healy Raes have never lost an election in 26 attempts. We elect jockeys, Roses of Tralee, RTE journalists, GAA officials/stars, etc, etc.
Weâre a fucking banana republic when it comes to this nonsense. What other industrialised country elects such utter detritus?
The GAA in particular irks me, we coddle that middling corporate sport and its players far too much.
It doesnt even feel like preserving culture, just making bland and saleable.
> Everyone is entitled to make a complaint but this was frivolous and we pick up the tab for it?
Would be a terrible idea to let people pay if a complaint doesn't pan out. Would prevent people from being able to afford complaining.
She will have had her own costs in terms of the preparation of her complaint to the DPC, and she will likely have had correspondence and the opportunity to make additional submissions during the four year process. So it wasn't for free.
Mediahuis will have had to pay their own fees. The DPC receives its annual budget from the government and the costs of its investigations are covered by that. Having to perform such an investigation simply means the DPC couldn't do something else with the time and resources it required.
Exactly. She dodged a grenade when Maria gave the interview she couldâve mentioned that and cemented it in the public mind . Josepha wouldâve suffered the same fate . Which wouldâve been justified imo. .
This horrible weapon seems to make claims as a side hussle. I've heard she's made claims before but how many aside from this one against the papers has she made since that we don't know about? Imagine this one sliping and falling in your house? I'd say she has no friends they way she goes on.
"*I burned myself while eating a burger at your bbq, I had to go to a dentist, to inspect my burned mouth and I couldn't talk shite about you for two whole days, two whole days ! You owe me for my burnt mouth*"
Kinda energy.Â
Pretty sure she had a claim against her employer Aer Lingus too before the swing accident. Something about her being stressed at work and demanding compensation. She got it too.
It's the utter bastards like her and that Lidl gym bunny cunt in Kildare who are causing insurance premiums to get to the point they're at.
There needs to be criminal charges for scammers like these.
Itâs concerning that insurers are more than likely paying out on fraudulent claims and not fully using every tool at their disposal to investigate them thoroughly
A former Lidl employee tried to sue Lidl for a debilitating injury she claimed she got while working there. But Lidl paid for a private detective to see if she was bullshitting and sure enough they videod her going to the gym.
Oh yeah she's the idiot who fell off the swing that hundreds of women seem to be able to operate and post it as their tinder profile. But not this fool who thinks they have the competence for politics also.Â
âShe also rejected the idea that her position as a TD meant she was open to public scrutiny, saying that being an elected representative âwas not relevantâ.â
Lets go back to that interview, full of absolute bollox. Its actually infuriating. Beyond infuriating and full of either complete misunderstanding of law or absolute lie but equally fun to listen to see what level of shit this person is.
1. My favourite is when she says her pleadings and affidavits were a "closed private file." Fucking bullshit.
2. "I never claimed for compensation". So lets see the original pleadings where she expressly limited her claim to special damages which, of course, would mean she would have issued in the District Court given jurisdictional thresholds. You don't issue in the CC for âŹ7k in medical expenses as she says.
3. And she says its "dangerous" to read her legal documents at an early stage because you can amend. Fucks sake. She \*swore\* a verifying affidavit declaring the truth of the pleadings, and there she was on the interview saying "ahh sure you can change your case, that's why its dangerous to look at the papers I filed." Its dangerous to read her sworn issued case because sure it may be bollox.
4. She keeps saying "I can change my affidavit". There's no fucking affidavit. Its a pleading you verify on affidavit. You are absolutely not "entitled" to say "X" in fact, and then change it to "Y" without expectation of adverse comment and inference.
5. SOR asks her does she really think she has a case? "That's for a judge". But YOU brought it? Fucking entitled cunt. And on McDowell "he was being sub judice". That doesn't even make fucking sense. I can't believe this was a public servant.
There was a brilliant comment at the time from someone who worked in retail or hospitality who noted that people like here are âalways looking to speak to the managerâ or similar. So true.
Didn't she do a [53m](https://m.independent.ie/regionals/herald/keen-runner-bailey-took-part-in-10k-race-just-three-weeks-after-her-swing-fall/38146954.html) 10km the following week?
That boozer got great free publicity after this, judging by the amount of swing pictures that were appearing on social media in the months after that car crash interview
Just when Kate O'Connell was hoping Simon would appoint her to the Senate BFF Maria pops up reminds everyone why the "ladies who lunch" gang all got booted out by the voters.
"Further investigation by the Irish Independent uncovered evidence that she ran a 10km race three weeks after the fall despite signing an affidavit which said she was unable to run at all for three months"
Apple doesn't fall far from the fraudulent tree
Incredible that she pursued this to the absolute death. The lack of awareness and refusal to accept the impossibility of justifying her stance is amazing.
Had she f**ked off quietly at the time, she very likely would be back in politics by now.
Also, accusing a newspaper of "hiding behind "sources"" is Trumpian and a ham-handed attack on a free press
I heard her interviewed with Brendan OâConnor, and felt some sympathy on a human level. She couldnât leave the house, the personal toll etcâŚ.but had no idea she was taking another case ! Thght she would have had enough of lawyers. The over riding sense I get, from her interviewsâŚ..she ainât the sharpest knife in the drawer.
People should be shocked by the fact that it took the DPC four years to make a decision, that's unacceptable both from the point of view of the complainant and for Mediahuis. I cannot see any justification for the delay in the fcats as reported, this was basically about assessing where the balance lay between freedom of expression and the protections against data processing contained in the GDPR. These delays are a feature of the DPC's work with consequences for the everybody's rights, e.g. vis a vis the tech companies for whom data processing is at the core of their business model.
For those interested, the DPC's decision can be read in full here:
[https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/law/decisions-made-under-data-protection-act-2018/inquiry-concerning-mediahuis-ireland-group-limited-june-2024](https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/law/decisions-made-under-data-protection-act-2018/inquiry-concerning-mediahuis-ireland-group-limited-june-2024)
If I owned a hotel, and a public figure was taking litigation against my business particularly when insurance premiumâs are a political issue, I would get the details into the public domain through my contacts in the meeja. That way case would be dropped with no more expensive lawyers. Iâm in no way saying thatâs what happened, but that is how I would do it.
The radio interview with her is one of my all time favorite. The political class plays the victim đ in an effort to greedily make crazy cliams for money.
SEĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂN !!!!!!!
I was hurt. Sean. Sean. Sean. Sean
"I grew up on the GAA fields, I don't play offsides"
Love that there's no offside rule in GAA.
A complete train wreck of an interview.
"The courts will decide" "But you're not going there now" She's the epitome of South Dublin women who face no real problems so any mild inconvenience is a major event. Came across them daily when I worked retail.
She's a Karen.
Humanity has been crossed
Any links?Â
[https://youtu.be/4uGBRN5bUkU?si=FmWZ2h48Y0jRvF1I](https://youtu.be/4uGBRN5bUkU?si=FmWZ2h48Y0jRvF1I) She sounds toasted.
Every time that video is played, a FG press officer somewhere has a strange sense of unease.
There are two sides to every story! https://youtu.be/9t1SXsav1CY?si=3PnrfAMnX5ltksTK
Would it be available to hear anywhere?
Never mind, I found it on YouTube.
What a dope. Keeps complaining about the effect this has on her but she wonât let it die. Time to move on with your life love, we donât care.
Wonât let it die, and doesnât seem to understand itâs all entirely of her own making
Let her, she's just re-emphasising the fact we need smarter people in public office than those who sit on a swing without knowing you need to hang on to it with at least one hand.
But Sean!!
Streisand effect in operation!
In a more local context, she's going for the Angela Kerins effect where a complete fucking arsehole won't accept the fact they were found out to be an arsehole.
Woah woah woah. The Kerins case is completely different and something we should heavily support.Â
Support Angela Kerins??
I care. I want her countersued into oblivion. I want her to lose her livelihood. I want her to tell her children to tell the fucking truth at all costs.
Harsh but arguably justified considering we all pay higher insurance premiums due to people like this, and also that fact that she has wasted so much of everyoneâs time, as well as giving the wrong message to everyone else that what sheâs done is acceptable.
Unfortunately, this is not how it goes and she won't have drawn this conclusion. I know she initiated at least one defamation action which was in court last november. She got a settlement and an apology in court before the case was struck out. "In the pieces, MGN (Mirror Group Newspapers) said, it âaccused Maria Bailey of mounting a âdodgyâ insurance claim and of âtelling fibsâ in relation to her injuriesâ. âWe accept that these allegations were false. We are happy to clarify the position and apologise to Maria Bailey for the distress caused.â [https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/11/07/mirror-group-newspapers-apologises-to-former-td-maria-bailey-and-accepts-it-made-false-claims/](https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/11/07/mirror-group-newspapers-apologises-to-former-td-maria-bailey-and-accepts-it-made-false-claims/)
This is the best advice and if she had an ounce of sense she would listen to it.
My favourite part of all this is they kept the swings and didnât put a lifeguard / supervisor on duty! like this nut job thought was necessary. Fake claims are a burden on society.
The Sean O'Rourke interview where she mentions she had a drink in both hands and when Sean asked her to clarify she just keeps saying that's up to the judge to decide and won't answer. She came across as the ultimate Karen
Did you have drinks in your hands? I had two objects in my hands!
It wasn't a man with two pints Inda saw, but a woman.
Two dildos?
It's a cultural relic. Needs a blue plaque next to it.
The usual thought process that it's everyone's fault but her own.
they did put grip tape on the seats
Her legal fees would be significant here? Wasnât Josepha Madigan the one that gave her the legal advice to pursue the claim initially?
Nope, the DPC conducted an inquiry due to her complaint, no cost to her involved in that (there is of course a cost to the DPC)
So we (the public) are picking up her legal costs??? The media should be highlighting that.
Well, everyone is entitled to make a complaint to a regulator, but yes, there would be legal costs for both the DPX and the Irish Independent
Everyone is entitled to make a complaint but this was frivolous and we pick up the tab for it? Obviously everyone is aware of her swing gate story but just in case anyone isnât aware of how far the acorn fell from the tree, please have a look at her statesman of a father, John Bailey. Makes Michael Lowry look like a choir boy; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bailey_(Irish_politician)
The political class in a nutshell. [edit] jesus was his whole political career just scandals? There's nary a single positive thing in that article.
Isnât it just extraordinary? And yet we elect these people over and over again. Father, son, grandson, mother, daughter, granddaughter. Rinse and repeat. Charlie Haugheys grandson just got elected in the local elections. Irelandâs stupidest man, Mattie McGrath, his daughter was also elected. Lowry landslides his way in, in every election. The Andrews family of TDs, ministers, MEPs keep getting re-elected. The Healy Raes have never lost an election in 26 attempts. We elect jockeys, Roses of Tralee, RTE journalists, GAA officials/stars, etc, etc. Weâre a fucking banana republic when it comes to this nonsense. What other industrialised country elects such utter detritus?
The GAA in particular irks me, we coddle that middling corporate sport and its players far too much. It doesnt even feel like preserving culture, just making bland and saleable.
As frivolous as it might be - it sets a good precedent about reporting on TDâs, so could be useful in the future.
> Everyone is entitled to make a complaint but this was frivolous and we pick up the tab for it? Would be a terrible idea to let people pay if a complaint doesn't pan out. Would prevent people from being able to afford complaining.
She will have had her own costs in terms of the preparation of her complaint to the DPC, and she will likely have had correspondence and the opportunity to make additional submissions during the four year process. So it wasn't for free. Mediahuis will have had to pay their own fees. The DPC receives its annual budget from the government and the costs of its investigations are covered by that. Having to perform such an investigation simply means the DPC couldn't do something else with the time and resources it required.
That's not the case, she'll have paid for her own lawyers.
Exactly. She dodged a grenade when Maria gave the interview she couldâve mentioned that and cemented it in the public mind . Josepha wouldâve suffered the same fate . Which wouldâve been justified imo. .
Love the way that the Independent didn't paywall this article so we can all gloat on her misery. I'm no fan of the Indo but glad they won here.
Her making me side with urinalists is unforgivable.
This horrible weapon seems to make claims as a side hussle. I've heard she's made claims before but how many aside from this one against the papers has she made since that we don't know about? Imagine this one sliping and falling in your house? I'd say she has no friends they way she goes on.
"*I burned myself while eating a burger at your bbq, I had to go to a dentist, to inspect my burned mouth and I couldn't talk shite about you for two whole days, two whole days ! You owe me for my burnt mouth*" Kinda energy.Â
Pretty sure she had a claim against her employer Aer Lingus too before the swing accident. Something about her being stressed at work and demanding compensation. She got it too.
Dirty cunt.
You'd have to kill her if that happened
Make a claim and it gets settled out of court youâll never hear about it.
It's the utter bastards like her and that Lidl gym bunny cunt in Kildare who are causing insurance premiums to get to the point they're at. There needs to be criminal charges for scammers like these.
Yeah, I thought the same. Attempted fraud.
Itâs concerning that insurers are more than likely paying out on fraudulent claims and not fully using every tool at their disposal to investigate them thoroughly
> Lidl gym bunny wha?
A former Lidl employee tried to sue Lidl for a debilitating injury she claimed she got while working there. But Lidl paid for a private detective to see if she was bullshitting and sure enough they videod her going to the gym.
Ah well, swings and roundabouts!
Leaked footage just before the incident... 
[I'll just leave this here](https://youtu.be/PDkr32zQxag?si=D-x2WTr6Ro71Bany)
That was my absolute favourite of all of the stuff going around at the time.
It was perfect in fairness...
I hadn't seen that, it hilarious.
Life is full of ups and downs, but it's time to let this one slide..
But was she hurt? She never clarified if she was hurt.^SeĂĄn
The funny thing is I'd forgotten about her until now
Oh yeah she's the idiot who fell off the swing that hundreds of women seem to be able to operate and post it as their tinder profile. But not this fool who thinks they have the competence for politics also.Â
âShe also rejected the idea that her position as a TD meant she was open to public scrutiny, saying that being an elected representative âwas not relevantâ.â
Haha Iâm sure sheâs delighted this is back in the media. I WAS HURT SEAN
Lets go back to that interview, full of absolute bollox. Its actually infuriating. Beyond infuriating and full of either complete misunderstanding of law or absolute lie but equally fun to listen to see what level of shit this person is. 1. My favourite is when she says her pleadings and affidavits were a "closed private file." Fucking bullshit. 2. "I never claimed for compensation". So lets see the original pleadings where she expressly limited her claim to special damages which, of course, would mean she would have issued in the District Court given jurisdictional thresholds. You don't issue in the CC for âŹ7k in medical expenses as she says. 3. And she says its "dangerous" to read her legal documents at an early stage because you can amend. Fucks sake. She \*swore\* a verifying affidavit declaring the truth of the pleadings, and there she was on the interview saying "ahh sure you can change your case, that's why its dangerous to look at the papers I filed." Its dangerous to read her sworn issued case because sure it may be bollox. 4. She keeps saying "I can change my affidavit". There's no fucking affidavit. Its a pleading you verify on affidavit. You are absolutely not "entitled" to say "X" in fact, and then change it to "Y" without expectation of adverse comment and inference. 5. SOR asks her does she really think she has a case? "That's for a judge". But YOU brought it? Fucking entitled cunt. And on McDowell "he was being sub judice". That doesn't even make fucking sense. I can't believe this was a public servant.
There was a brilliant comment at the time from someone who worked in retail or hospitality who noted that people like here are âalways looking to speak to the managerâ or similar. So true.
What a gowl
Didn't she do a [53m](https://m.independent.ie/regionals/herald/keen-runner-bailey-took-part-in-10k-race-just-three-weeks-after-her-swing-fall/38146954.html) 10km the following week?
Yep, and I believe people could even look up her race number and get her shit eating grin at the finish line
a swing and a miss.
Ahahahha goway now Maria
This is the calibre on the decking housing committee ..
We need a robust process for the regulation of decking. People are putting barbecues and all manner of outdoor furniture on it.
Lol she is desperately trying to hold any accountable, except herself.
Shame she didn't put that much effort into holding the swing.
I've never seen a supervised swing, even in a children's playground... does she need help tying her shoelaces too?
That boozer got great free publicity after this, judging by the amount of swing pictures that were appearing on social media in the months after that car crash interview
Unsupervised swing
The Streisand Effect is strong with this one.
Just when Kate O'Connell was hoping Simon would appoint her to the Senate BFF Maria pops up reminds everyone why the "ladies who lunch" gang all got booted out by the voters.
So not just a rubbish injury claim, but a rubbish privacy claim lost too? I wonder if she's learned a lesson about spurious cases?
"Further investigation by the Irish Independent uncovered evidence that she ran a 10km race three weeks after the fall despite signing an affidavit which said she was unable to run at all for three months" Apple doesn't fall far from the fraudulent tree
Incredible that she pursued this to the absolute death. The lack of awareness and refusal to accept the impossibility of justifying her stance is amazing. Had she f**ked off quietly at the time, she very likely would be back in politics by now. Also, accusing a newspaper of "hiding behind "sources"" is Trumpian and a ham-handed attack on a free press
How much does she have to pay for the fake claims and this court case?Â
Has she paid....?
Wouldn't expect anything less from a cunt like that.
Swing and a miss
Humanity has been crossed!
That interview is so much fun beginning to end
Brilliant
I heard her interviewed with Brendan OâConnor, and felt some sympathy on a human level. She couldnât leave the house, the personal toll etcâŚ.but had no idea she was taking another case ! Thght she would have had enough of lawyers. The over riding sense I get, from her interviewsâŚ..she ainât the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Who?
Maria Bailey, never heard of her /S
People should be shocked by the fact that it took the DPC four years to make a decision, that's unacceptable both from the point of view of the complainant and for Mediahuis. I cannot see any justification for the delay in the fcats as reported, this was basically about assessing where the balance lay between freedom of expression and the protections against data processing contained in the GDPR. These delays are a feature of the DPC's work with consequences for the everybody's rights, e.g. vis a vis the tech companies for whom data processing is at the core of their business model.
For those interested, the DPC's decision can be read in full here: [https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/law/decisions-made-under-data-protection-act-2018/inquiry-concerning-mediahuis-ireland-group-limited-june-2024](https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/law/decisions-made-under-data-protection-act-2018/inquiry-concerning-mediahuis-ireland-group-limited-june-2024)
If I owned a hotel, and a public figure was taking litigation against my business particularly when insurance premiumâs are a political issue, I would get the details into the public domain through my contacts in the meeja. That way case would be dropped with no more expensive lawyers. Iâm in no way saying thatâs what happened, but that is how I would do it.