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Is Mary O'Rourke licenced to say "controversial" stuff?

  • 25-02-2009 12:45pm
    #1
    mike65
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    Just wondering, for some time now She had been popping up saying the stuff that appears to be unhelpful for the government and yet I'm not aware any senior figure has publicly admonished her. So has she been given licence to say stuff that we know to be true (or think we know to be true) as a lightening rod of some sort?


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  • #2
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    She has been semi-detached since Bertie effectively gifted her seat to Donie Cassidy, and winning the seat back did not re-attach her to the party.

    She speaks her own mind a bit more than the average party TD. I think that is a good thing, and wish it became a more general pattern. Sometimes party loyalty in Ireland is too strong. How often do we hear TDs toeing the party line and saying things that they manifestly do not believe?

    It probably helps her that, at her age, she may not be a candidate in the next election.


  • #3
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    She's just another irrelevant loo-laa like the two Lenihan brother's that she is related to.


  • #4
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Darragh29 wrote: »
    She's just another irrelevant loo-laa like the two Lenihan brother's that she is related to.

    She's more relevant than people who stay on the sideline shouting abuse.


  • #5
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    She's more relevant than people who stay on the sideline shouting abuse.

    So she's more relevant than herself then!?


  • #6
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    enda1 wrote: »
    So she's more relevant than herself then!?

    :D


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  • #7
    Raiser
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    An eerie voice from the Crypt - she has no relevance within the modern Irish political sphere; and it would take some persuasion to convince me that she ever did have......


  • #8
    deadhead13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    She is just at an age where she no longer gives a ........


  • #9
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,616 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    anyone know what she did as minister for public enterprise for 5 years apart from telecom privatisation and we all know what a rip roaring success that was eventually wimping out and allowing a buyout causing losses to small shareholders (most people i knew where quite happy to hang on to the shares and hope for a recovery) but know FF sold out to vested interests again.
    she was an incompetence then an irrelavance now and what was she rewarded with ajob in the seanad shouldve been a kick up a*se and a p45 but unfortuantely the more incompetant you are the higher you go in FF.

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  • #10
    deadhead13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    She wasn't awarded a Seanad seat - she demanded one from Bertie and he obliged.


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