Non-National? Not For Me… Senator Draws Fire for Seanad Comment

You’d be forgiven for thinking this was a sketch from the likes of Irish Pictorial Weekly, but we’re afraid not.

This is in fact a look at the goings-on in the Seanad earlier today, where Fianna Fáil Senator Paschal Mooney in an address to the chamber said he would not get into a taxi with an “obvious non-national”.

The Senator, who stressed that he was “not in any way being discriminatory” said that there was “evidence that there are people driving taxis around this city who don’t know one end of the street from the other”. 

Mooney has since apologised for his remarks.