Five of the top howlers made by Minister Doherty

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO May 2016

AS Government chief whip she told errant politicians to pay their water bills. But she forgot when her own firm was liquidated in 2013, it owed more than €100,000 to AIB and Revenue, which she says she’s paid. But a UK firm had to go to court to reclaim €10,000.

VIVA LA REVOLUTION December 2016

WHEN An Bord Pleanála backed new electricity pylons in her constituency, she backed farmers threatening ‘civil disobedience’. Would she do the same if pensioners staged a sit-in over her Public Services Cards?

GOING HER OWN WAY January 2017

AFTER she said she’d work with Sinn Féin, a spokesman for thentaoiseach Enda Kenny had to deny the party would do so. In July, she changed to: ‘I’d resign in a flash, before I’d go into coalition with Sinn Féin.’ Hmmm.

MEAN GIRLS’ QUEEN BEE January 2017

SHE moaned about colleague Helen McEntee not saying ‘hello’ to her in Leinster House – sounding rather like Mean Girls’ Queen Bee Regina George.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE August 2017

CONFUSION quickly ensued when she said new Public Service Cards were ‘mandatory but not compulsory’ – the distinction imperceptible to all but her.