Supermac’s the saviour turns Rabbitte’s nuts!

Bradley Bytes – a sort-of political column with Dara Bradley

Anne Rabbitte, everyone’s favourite Fianna Fáil TD in Galway East, was working late in Leinster House on Thursday night.

The Disabilities Minister, before heading home, popped into An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, who was also burning the midnight oil.

Martin had been on a conference call with EU leaders earlier, dealing with the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine.

The pair chatted for a while about Government policy, internal FF business and the like.

Before leaving, Rabbitte asked her party leader to sign a Golden Anniversary card for two constituents, a couple in Athenry who were celebrating their 50th. All politics is local, after all.

Rabbitte hopped into her jalopy – no ministerial chauffeur for Ministers of State, who must drive themselves like the rest of us mere mortals! – and set off for home, Portumna, along the M50 and the M6 towards Galway. Thirsty, around midnight, Rabbitte veered off the motorway and stopped at Supermac’s in Kinnegad for bottled water.

She got in just before they closed at midnight. But when she came back to her car, she realised she had a flat tyre.

Rabbitte, a work-horse, isn’t shy of mucking in, and so attempted to change it herself.

“I’m not slight but I wasn’t able to turn the nuts; I just couldn’t turn the nuts,” she laughed.

Luckily, a Good Samaritan from Supermac’s who saw that she was in a spot of bother, came to the rescue and she was back on the road to Galway, albeit over an hour delayed.  “Thank God for Supermac’s – my saviour!” she said.

For more Bradley Bytes, see this week’s Galway City Tribune. 

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