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Mary O'Rourke Watch

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    #602
    snubbleste
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    She was on Radio1 Saturday morning.
    She went on and on and on stating "I could talk forever"


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    #603
    Radio5
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    I think she has a new book out...


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    #604
    Mena Mitty
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    ''Ten thousand and one Radox nights''

    A quarter of a century of amusing and wretched letters from selected constituents read between phone calls and ablutions in the Irish midlands.


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    #605
    snubbleste
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    Larking about on Newstalk at the minute


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    #606
    tampopo
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    On the Seven O'Clock show (at six O'Clock) on TV3 at the moment. "It's in my book" she has been heard to say. On with Jedward.


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    #607
    etselbbuns
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    Coming up on Ray D'Arcy Radio1


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    #608
    BarryD2
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    etselbbuns wrote: »
    Coming up on Ray D'Arcy Radio1

    Thanks for the warning. Will Ray dare ask her about Telecom shares?


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    #609
    BarryD2
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    BarryD2 wrote: »
    Thanks for the warning. Will Ray dare ask her about Telecom shares?

    Nope, he won't. Not sure what that was all about.


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    #610
    zell12
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    Currently on Newstalk mammying on about reviewing bukes


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    #611
    zell12
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    Mammying away on Radio1 with Brendan O'Connor now


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    #612
    serfboard
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    zell12 wrote: »
    Mammying away on Radio1 with Brendan O'Connor now
    I enjoyed that slot with her yesterday - Mammy O'Rourke doing her thing, talking without hesitation, and with great warmth and a sense of humour.

    A good tonic for troubled times!


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    #613
    KaneToad
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    serfboard wrote: »
    I enjoyed that slot with her yesterday - Mammy O'Rourke doing her thing, talking without hesitation, and with great warmth and a sense of humour.

    A good tonic for troubled times!

    She's an 82 yr old woman, living alone during a pandemic lock down. I think it's interesting to hear from her.


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    #614
    elperello
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    Well I'd forgotten that this thread existed, two years since the last post.

    Lovely to hear that the neighbour drops in her paper, that's the spirit for these lockdown days.


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    #615
    zell12
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    Did Des's Desert Island Discs at 18:30-19:00 Thursday


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    #616
    Mearings
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    zell12 wrote: »
    Did Des's Desert Island Discs at 18:30-19:00 Thursday


    '
    'Arise and follow Charlie'?


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    #617
    zell12
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    Just been chatting to Yates on Newstalk about authors and inspirations.

    She really was engaging and interesting to listen to :o


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    #618
    whisky_galore
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    KaneToad wrote: »
    She's an 82 yr old woman, living alone during a pandemic lock down. I think it's interesting to hear from her.

    She's probably got 2 pensions and no shortage of family to look out for her, not really representative of all women in their 80s.


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    dhaughton99
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    She's probably got 2 pensions and no shortage of family to look out for her, not really representative of all women in their 80s.

    I’d say you are being a tad bit conservative saying ‘2 pensions’.


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    #620
    whisky_galore
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    dhaughton99 wrote: »
    I’d say you are being a tad bit conservative saying ‘2 pensions’.

    Well let's just say she isnt short of a few bob.

    She was on with moncrieff before the lockdown waxing lyrical about the joys of cocooning, actual joy, she was actually looking forward to it.

    It was sickening listening to her entitled ivory tower guff.


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    KaneToad wrote: »
    She's an 82 yr old woman, living alone during a pandemic lock down. I think it's interesting to hear from her.

    I agree with you, it's good to hear from a demographic that doesn't often appear in the media.

    Having said that, she isn't representative of most women her age. She also has one mah-hassive ego, the stuff of legend.


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    #622
    Radio5
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I agree with you, it's good to hear from a demographic that doesn't often appear in the media.

    Having said that, she isn't representative of most women her age. She also has one mah-hassive ego, the stuff of legend.

    Certainly most women of her age wouldn't have the pensions she has even if they'd been working most of their lives ...

    Was it her local organisation that we have to thank for Boxer Moran, of the recently departed Independents-that-Went-Into-Government party?


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    elperello
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    Radio5 wrote: »
    Certainly most women of her age wouldn't have the pensions she has even if they'd been working most of their lives ...

    Was it her local organisation that we have to thank for Boxer Moran, of the recently departed Independents-that-Went-Into-Government party?

    Women in general do worse than men when it comes to pensions.

    Not in the political sphere though where the pay and pensions are gender equal.

    It's also fair to say that she only gets what she is entitled to.


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    #624
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    Radio5 wrote: »
    Certainly most women of her age wouldn't have the pensions she has even if they'd been working most of their lives ...

    Was it her local organisation that we have to thank for Boxer Moran, of the recently departed Independents-that-Went-Into-Government party?

    I don't think anyone was in the wrong there. Boxer Moran had ambitions to get elected, and Mary O'Rourke also deserved her nomination.

    She had been a TD with 20 years of unbroken service, a Minister in multiple governments, and the deputy-leader of the party. Everyone seems to have accepted that her one electoral loss had been a woeful disaster of vote-management.

    She may not be everyone's cup of tea, and I'm sure that even she wouldn't claim to be representative of Irish women in general; but when you look at her experience in public life and ability to talk plainly (even against her own party), it's no wonder she's regularly invited onto panel discussion.


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    #625
    zell12
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    Mary O'Rourke on Newstalk at 18:10 going on about houses too large for its occupants. She called her own place "a modest bungalow in a modest street in the town of Athlone and here I'm staying"


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    #626
    tampopo
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    Newstalk now, about elderly people downsizing to smaller accommodation-or not, in her case.


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    #627
    elperello
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    zell12 wrote: »
    Mary O'Rourke on Newstalk at 18:10 going on about houses too large for its occupants. She called her own place "a modest bungalow in a modest street in the town of Athlone and here I'm staying"

    She is telling the truth.

    It's a nice bungalow in a good neighborhood but no mansion.

    Just by the way, downsizing for seniors is a complex issue.


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    #628
    Declan A Walsh
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    Mary was on Newstalk on Pat Kenny's Show yesterday, talking about her experiences as a woman TD and Minister. This was on the occasion of International Woman's Day.
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    #629
    Declan A Walsh
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    Does Mary only turn up on national stations or has she ever been on any local stations such as Midlands Radio 3?
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    #630
    Antenna
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    Briefly put on RTE Radio 1 this afternooon -
    MOR was on this afternoon with Kathryn Thomas (who was filling in for Ray Darcy)
    Talking about Vaccination, lockdown etc, and she was praising Kathryn for her TV work etc...


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    #631
    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 23,470 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Newstalk now on about landlines and mobiles. She never answers her landline anymore, she is with Eir



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