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Mary O'Rourke Watch

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    #272
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    The Sindo's and The Mail's lastest constituency by constituency guides are predicting that Mary will be losing her seat. Boards.ie's poll have her 10th in a 4 seat constituency. Obscurity beckons, hopefully.


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    #273
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Nah! The senate beckons for her.


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    #274
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Not if FG/Lab make good on their promise to get rid of it.


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    #275
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    But there will be an interim senate until it can be abolished. She will be there until the bitter end.


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    #276
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    She's back and forward between the Seanad and the Dáil more often than a tennis ball in Wimbledon.


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    #277
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Yeah, I just had look at how appointments to the Seanad are made and even with a FG/Labour Government it is possible she could be back. Ah ****.


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    #278
    dh0661
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    She's on TV - PRIME TIME


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    #279
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    She has no shame..


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    #280
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    She just spoke on Newstalk and conceded defeat.

    She also said she doesn't want a seat in The Senate.

    Love her or hate her, politics will be less colourful without her.

    Not that we've heard the last of her by any means.

    In fact she'll now have more time on her hands to conduct radio interviews.

    Oh, she also happened to mention that there's a book on the way.

    Expect this thread to become known as Mary O'Rourke Plug Watch in the months ahead.


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    #281
    Dirigent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Dirigent


    All political careers end in failure, but rarely such a record of abject failure as Mammy's.


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    #282
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Lapin wrote: »
    Expect this thread to become known as Mary O'Rourke Plug Watch in the months ahead.

    I would be very worried that this will give her more time to appear on panel shows and the like..


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    #283
    Plowman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Plowman


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    #284
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Lapin wrote: »
    She just spoke on Newstalk and conceded defeat.

    She also said she doesn't want a seat in The Senate.

    Love her or hate her, politics will be less colourful without her.

    Not that we've heard the last of her by any means.

    In fact she'll now have more time on her hands to conduct radio interviews.

    Oh, she also happened to mention that there's a book on the way.

    Expect this thread to become known as Mary O'Rourke Plug Watch in the months ahead.

    My proud and noble cock poster, politics will be all the better that Mammy has finally been given a boot up the hole from the electorate.

    Waste of taxpayers money, pontificating about events from the sidelines,even though she was a central part of the Govt. who fcuked up this country.

    Piss off now Mammy and don't impose yourself and your outrageous pension on the public.


    Your race has run.


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    #285
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I was thinking about this, as she is no longer in the Dail and FF are not in power she will increasingly be out of the loop and so I suspect radio producers will phase her out, rather than seek her "insight" at the drop of a hat.


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    #286
    Poochie05
    Registered Users Posts: 4,233 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    That hasn't stopped her before.:rolleyes:
    She was on radio last year talking about the FG leadership battle and her first answer to the question about what was going on was 'I don't know' but they still let her speculate and blather for a few minutes.


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    #287
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    It hasn't stopped RTE/Newstalk/Today FM you mean, they phone her.


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    #288
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Good riddence. She should have stayed out of politics after the clusterfúck of the Eircom privatisation. Instead, Bertie puts her into the palace of the undead politicians; the Seanad.

    /bye bye Mammy. Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.


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    #289
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    And thar she blows!
    Get used to it, the old witch will be sent by PK to report on cake events and jumble sales around the country on a weekly basis - mark my words!


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    #290
    ghosttown
    Registered Users Posts: 691 ✭✭✭ghosttown


    She's on Midlands 103 this morning talking about the book she's going to write ! :rolleyes:


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    #291
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    ghosttown wrote: »
    the book she's going to write ! :rolleyes:

    "Fianna Fail - My role in It's downfall?"


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    #292
    Gingersnaps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭Gingersnaps


    I heard Mammy O Rourke on Radio 1 this morning talking to Pat Kenny and she said "In the election Fianna Fail got what they deserved". I agree with her but if she thought FF were doing something wrong why didn't she call a halt to it and voice her opinion before this.
    BTW she also managed to get in a plug for her book. Surprise surprise!


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    #293
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Gingersnaps wrote: »
    I heard Mammy O Rourke on Radio 1 this morning talking to Pat Kenny and she said "In the election Fianna Fail got what they deserved". I agree with her but if she thought FF were doing something wrong why didn't she call a halt to it and voice her opinion before this.
    BTW she also managed to get in a plug for her book. Surprise surprise!

    Don't worry boys and girls, Mammy will soon fade away.

    You see , the media will lose interest in a loser very fast.

    That's how it works.

    My only concern would be that some station would give her a slot to temporarily boost ratings.

    otherwise she is gonzo


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    #294
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    You see , the media will lose interest in a loser very fast.

    That's how it works.

    Not necessarily true.......Jedward are still around.


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    #295
    Dirigent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Dirigent


    Rubik. wrote: »
    "Fianna Fail - My role in It's downfall?"

    Nah. It's Mammy O'Rourke we're discussing. Ergo:

    "It's role in my downfall".

    Remember the FF idiom: Self before Party, Party before Country.


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    #296
    GSF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭GSF


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Not necessarily true.......Jedward are still around.
    Jedward won.. despite having the vote stacked against them ;)

    and Jedward havent caused the collapse of the country..........yet!


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    #297
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Now on DriveTime ffs!


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    #298
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    I told ye all.. She has more time on her hands now, so she will be used by all radio stations as their filler when they cant get anybody significant on the show....

    Talking about that infuriating Dept Of Finance report... which assigns blame to everybody whose left with huge pensions, and blames nobody currently in the civil service... So pretty much the report the Department of Finance requested of the "independent" people who carried it out..


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    #299
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    I told ye all.. She has more time on her hands now, so she will be used by all radio stations as their filler when they cant get anybody significant on the show....

    Talking about that infuriating Dept Of Finance report... which assigns blame to everybody whose left with huge pensions, and blames nobody currently in the civil service... So pretty much the report the Department of Finance requested of the "independent" people who carried it out..

    Mary Wilson is chatting to her like a best friend. Can't take this seriously!


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    #300
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    cackle cackle grunt random noises repetitive words


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    #301
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Squaking away on RTE TV when I turned on to see the new Cabinet ... :(


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