Mary O'Rourke Watch

Infoanon · 30-12-2010 10:56am

I was hoping that at least one of them would ask Mary about her absolute opposition to the Dublin water supply being supplemented by water from the Shannon, alas......

Aidric · 30-12-2010 7:09pm

Infoanon wrote: »

The only difference was that the John Murray show had a correspondent on who thought Mary was brilliant.....

That was the most worrying aspect of the Murray interview. She was having a love in with a political correspondent for one of the nationals, once more confirming the view of the cosy relationships between political journalists and politicians. Rotten to the core.

cobwebs · 30-12-2010 10:05pm

This woman is a nuisance and is being used by the media as fodder for comedians. She is the Jacky Healy Rae of Westmeath,

bernardo mac · 04-01-2011 12:59pm

The Mother Hen is now lecturing bold Bertie about what he said re. Cowen's performance during this crisis.Somebody put the hen and the rodent into a tightly lidded pot!

dh0661 · 04-01-2011 8:23pm

bernardo mac wrote: »

The Mother Hen is now lecturing bold Bertie about what he said re. Cowen's performance during this crisis.Somebody put the hen and the rodent into a tightly lidded pot!

WHICH rodent

--- or all the rodents :rolleyes:

bernardo mac · 04-01-2011 10:49pm

Bertie,the big rat in a pot of chicken broth.Let them stew together.

ButtersSuki · 10-01-2011 1:27pm

She'll be on Newstalk shortly...talking about Brian Cowen and....you're not going to believe this......her Twitter account!

JonathanAnon · 10-01-2011 2:02pm

Cynical attempt to distance herself further from Cowan... She's gonna lay the boot in at any opportunity especially since the FF parliamentary party voted down her proposal to "re-evaluate the leadership" (i.e. euphemism for GET COWAN OUT) in the new year...

FlutterinBantam · 10-01-2011 6:18pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Cynical attempt to distance herself further from Cowan... She's gonna lay the boot in at any opportunity especially since the FF parliamentary party voted down her proposal to "re-evaluate the leadership" (i.e. euphemism for GET COWAN OUT) in the new year...

How the electorate would be stupid enough to re-elect this candidate is beyond me

JonathanAnon · 10-01-2011 6:25pm

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

How the electorate would be stupid enough to re-elect this candidate is beyond me

Well I would be surprised if she was elected too Flut, but Mayo people vote in Beverly Flynn, and Tipp still votes in Michael Lowry, so nothing surprises me about the electorate... She lost her seat to Donie Cassidy in 2002, and I would reckon the same thing is on the cards again ... not sure if Donie is running, but I'd say she WILL lose her seat either way ... and she wont even have a FF Taoiseach to nominate her to the Seanad seat either.

I think this current Dáil term will be her last ... thank god..

hotmail.com · 10-01-2011 6:28pm

I didn't hear the interview today but this woman called for a meeting on the leadership of FF for early January. What has happened with this aspiration? I hope she was quizzed about this.

JonathanAnon · 10-01-2011 6:33pm

hotmail.com wrote: »

What has happened with this aspiration? I hope she was quizzed about this.

Well as I said above, this motion of hers was voted down by the parliamentary party late last year... she was asked about her support today and she disingenuously said "I'm fully behind Brian Cowan as FF leader".. which is a bit rich given her tweet this morning and given that she wanted to have a "discussion of the FF leadership" this month...

FlutterinBantam · 10-01-2011 6:48pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Well I would be surprised if she was elected too Flut, but Mayo people vote in Beverly Flynn, and Tipp still votes in Michael Lowry, so nothing surprises me about the electorate... She lost her seat to Donie Cassidy in 2002, and I would reckon the same thing is on the cards again ... not sure if Donie is running, but I'd say she WILL lose her seat either way ... and she wont even have a FF Taoiseach to nominate her to the Seanad seat either.

I think this current Dáil term will be her last ... thank god..

I would not be in the least surprised if she were elected.

Hope you are right.

hotmail.com · 10-01-2011 7:27pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Well as I said above, this motion of hers was voted down by the parliamentary party late last year... she was asked about her support today and she disingenuously said "I'm fully behind Brian Cowan as FF leader".. which is a bit rich given her tweet this morning and given that she wanted to have a "discussion of the FF leadership" this month...

She gets away with all this because she's an old woman.

Putting my personal views of her aside, it is a bit selfish for her to be running in this campaign and therefore depriving a younger candidate an opportunity to get a foothold on the electorate.

FlutterinBantam · 10-01-2011 7:45pm

hotmail.com wrote: »

She gets away with all this because she's an old woman.

Putting my personal views of her aside, it is a bit selfish for her to be running in this campaign and therefore depriving a younger candidate an opportunity to get a foothold on the electorate.

It most certainly is.

Hang up the pink crimplene dress Máire, and ride off into the frikken sunset.

dh0661 · 10-01-2011 10:06pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

thank god..

IF there was a god Mr. Healy Rea would not have been elected to represent a part of the county I'm from.

IF there is a god his son will not be elected to represent it either.

Lapin · 11-01-2011 5:31am

dh0661 wrote: »

IF there was a god Mr. Healy Rea would not have been elected to represent a part of the county I'm from.

IF there is a god his son will not be elected to represent it either.

I was under the impression Mr Healy Rae thinks he is God.

Both of them. Father and Son.

The electorate of Kerry form the third part of the trinity.

They're full of unholy spirits.

constitutionus · 13-01-2011 11:21am

dh0661 wrote: »

IF there was a god Mr. Healy Rea would not have been elected to represent a part of the county I'm from.

IF there is a god his son will not be elected to represent it either.

what have you got against jesus !

on the OP.

Mary on pat kenny now, after being on newstalks breakfast show too. bleeding everywhere.

sometimes i start to think she's the only person IN FF !

telekon · 13-01-2011 11:26am

Mary's crowbarring in as much media attention time as possible before she is cast into the political wilderness in March. Watch her pop up everywhere in the next couple of months....and then never heard of again.

coylemj · 15-01-2011 9:35pm

Her FF rival in Athlone Kevin 'Boxer' Moran has resigned from the party and is going to stand as an independent, he stood against her for the nomination in 2007 and lost. FF and FG typically run three candidates each in Longford-Westmeath and they are almost always from Athlone, Mullingar and Longford which gives the maximum geographic spread so unless Mary stood aside Boxer had no chance of getting nominated, now it looks like he's going to give it a go anyway but as an independent, he will probably ruin Mary's chances of being re-elected.

http://www.westmeathindependent.ie/news/roundup/articles/2011/01/14/4002599-boxer-to-run-as-independent/

People in Athlone are now saying that the town vote will be split three ways: Boxer, Mary O'R and Senator Nicky McFadden (FG) which carries the real risk that the town will end up with no TD at all, something that happened from 2002 to 2007 when Donie Cassidy 'borrowed' Mary's seat!

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 17-01-2011 1:16pm

dh0661 wrote: »

IF there is a god his son will not be elected to represent it either.

I don't Jesus Christ is due to run in Kerry South in the upcoming election but if he did you can't write off a miracle result.

hotmail.com · 17-01-2011 9:25pm

Not a peep out of herself today or yesterday. Bit of a coward.

JonathanAnon · 17-01-2011 9:56pm

hotmail.com wrote: »

Not a peep out of herself today or yesterday. Bit of a coward.

Very true.. She's spineless.. I assume from all her bladdering on before Christmas that she's in the Anti Cowan Fáil camp.. Or maybe Auntie is the more relevant word.

IvyTheTerrible · 18-01-2011 10:12am

hotmail.com wrote: »

Not a peep out of herself today or yesterday. Bit of a coward.

She was announced as being on some programme on radio one (can'te remember which one) but luckily i missed it.

IvyTheTerrible · 18-01-2011 11:29am

She's on Pat Kenny on Radio One now.

Dirigent · 18-01-2011 11:29am

The scratched record is on PK now. Yawn.

Lapin · 18-01-2011 11:30am

On PK now.

The silence was too good to last.

Sir Oxman · 18-01-2011 11:31am

She's intolerable.

telekon · 18-01-2011 11:31am

On the PK show.

She's a real snake in the grass, she's defending Cowen now. :rolleyes:

Nothing to do with your nephew's decision, no?

Yawn.

SB-08 · 18-01-2011 11:31am

She is on PK now. Such waffle. She says it too late to change leader despite the election not being for over 2 months. This is the same women who claimed last year that the issue of leadership should be discussed in early Jan up the return (ie, last week) which is exactly what happened. She is now saying it's too late? I bet if it was Brian Lenihan challenging and not Martins should certainly wouldn't have such a view.:rolleyes:

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