For fear that my opinions weren't unpopular enough already, probably best to bring in Fintan to complete the job?! [It's kinda cold up here on the high ground and I needed some company!]
Fintan O'Toole: Fine Gael thinks it is saintly when it is merely sanctimonious
That's fair enough if she was an outsider not of the parliament, but she was an insider those tds on the committee are her contemporaries, she was one of them and she played that game herself. She was well capable of preaching down from on high from her pulpit when she was there, in fact she wanted a new pulpit in New York, now she wants to retreat back to anonymity in New York and stay stum.
I predict that k zappone won't stay silent though, she will wait for a year or so until the controversy has gone then she will reappear in a soft focus interview with Miriam and tell how she was wronged and was the victim of misogyny and all the rest.