Mary Robinson: ‘The Princess Latifa episode wasn’t my finest moment, to say the least … it was a big mistake’

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1. Her resignation as president wasn’t a good moment either.

2. Nearly as dumb as the time Michael D. Higgins tried to connect the murder of Catholics in Nigeria at the hands of an Islamist terrorist group to climate change.

3. I want leaders who admit to their mistakes. In a public life spanning decades, it’s likely anyone would fuck up at least once. I’m glad she’s taking ownership of it.

4. Can anyone give a summary of the incident? I never heard about it and can’t read the article.

5. This was absolutely nuts at the time, she went down a lot in my estimation after that.

6. No fucking shit.

   But Fair play to her for admitting she was wrong

7. She got paid to front for the cover up the kidnapping of a young princess who tried to escape the evil clutches of her cruel father. There were other family members affected by the father and the kingdom’s special forces dragged her off a yacht and back to the maw of her extremely wealthy arsehole dad who has horses in Kildare. It’s like the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia admitting that butchering a journalist in the basement of the embassy in Turkey was because he was having a bad day.