âWhen the incident occured, I wasnât a national politician, I was injured, taking legal action was not my first port of call. There was about five or six months of going back and forth before that happened.â
The former TD also said that she had been âdeletedâ by Fine Gael when she was deselected by the party in November 2019 ahead of the general election in February 2020.
âI was deletedâ
âI wasnât deselected, I was deleted. I think that word says more than anything. I had already been sanctioned, I had apologised countless times,â she said.
âI asked for a valid reason for that deletion and I still to this day havenât been given a valid reason. I had done polls, I knew I had been damaged but I was still in with a shot of getting a seat and unfortunately by being deleted the choice of the people was taken away.â