I was wondering why Mary was giving us all these controversial sound bites then realised towards to end of the article that she has a book out ! Look forward to seeing you this Friday night alongside the beanpole presenter…

What an eejit!

was it not her family that fecked things up.

Mary,no insult intended, but your nephew the late Brian Lenihan who was considered a very intelligent man made probably the biggest mistakes any politician has ever made. He gave the banks a blanket guarantee, which has resulted in this country being brought to its knees.
Secondly,he gave the people in the Cavan, Fermanagh, Leitrim area a false sense of security about the Quinn Group and led people to believe that he was going to accept the Quinn proposal which would have saved billions for the taxpayers and ensured the retention of 8000 jobs directly and tens of thousands indirectly dependent on the Quinn Group. Instead we are left with the very real prospect of the decimation of the border counties and the loss of monies that could have and would have been repaid.

See http://quinn-anglo-story.blogspot.com/

Kettle, Pot calling here.

not another Quinn sympathy story and conspiracy. ff and Quinn screwed us

Mary doesn’t mince her words, book or no book. You couldn’t argue with anything she said except about about Noonan. I think he’s an arrogant bluffer with very little substance. She is right about Kenny – light on but no one at home! But they will stay in power for the duration because of their strength of numbers. Wait for budgets 2014 and 2015! rabbits out of hats all around.

She’s a straight talking no nonsense woman, pity she didn’t run for president. A breath of fresh air to hear her speak

“Brian Cowen was very smart and very intelligent, there is no doubt about that, but he wouldn’t smile for anyone and that is what ruined us”,
That about say’s it to me Mary,so Cowan’s lack of smile’s ruined the economy.
As usual when any politician leave’s the Dail or ends up in the opposition seat they grow a back-bone and complain about cronyism and expenses’s then do the same thing when in power.
A new constitution for our country is needed to stop Cronyism,10 year 100 million euro tribunals with no arrests,Huge expense’s and pensions for ex politicians that are under 65,Boom bust cycle economics and people that have experience,qualifications in the field required in a minster or junior minster job.
Maybe I don’t have a clue or a bit naive but for god’s shake our country has been economic nightmare for nearly 70 years of our 90 year independence.

Mammy no politician is and that includes you.

I think Mary is mixing up being inteligent with being “cute”.

D

Dear Mary O’Rourke – you should know… it takes one to know one!

Mary O’Rourke,should just go and crawl back under the rock in which came from.Let’s not forget the times she went on TV and said how great Fine Fail government was.Another traitor pretending to be a patriot.

Did she not oversee the eircon rip off?

I always loved the description of her nephew Conor Lenihan:

“That boy is not the sharpest sandwich in the dictionary”.

Poor Mary. Complete attention junkie. Nobody cares, dear. Now please go and spend your several pensions and buck up the Athlone economy. There’s a good girl.

I must say that I agree with Mary – the non-partisan, ex Charlie and Bertie supporting, Eircom privatisation ex Cabinet minister – that there are no luminaries in the Dail to match her or former colleagues such as P.Flynn, Raymond Burke and Ivor Callely. Will the media please stop giving this wolf in sheep’s clothing a platform to spout her FF redemption nonsense. The current coalition is many disappointing things, promises included, but I would take them every time over her former colleagues including the pious Micheal Martin and his convenient disavowment of his time as a Minister in three FF administrations.

So if biffo smiled more we wouldn’t be in this mess. Sure Bertie couldn’t stop smiling.

They’ll all be coming out of the woodwork now, having digs at Bertie, talking Martin up and generally contributing to the “Renewal” of “The Party”.
I for one won’t be listening or be buying her book, or her BS.

Mary please just go away!

Enough said. If the person who was part of the problem doesn’t think your bright, then you are probably a genius.

Mary puts his finger on it! Brian Cowen didn’t smile. That’s what done us in!

I’d like you to pay attention to TheJournal from 2010

http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irelands-10-highest-paid-public-servants-2010-07/

She’s one to talk!

Will someone please explain the difference between “top story” and “top storey” to Jason Kennedy? Schoolboy error…

I quite like Mary; however, given that she oversaw the floating of Eircom, and is thus responsible for the crap broadband we have in this ‘knowledge economy’, she would perhaps want to take a long bath and reflect on her own efforts.

mary if there is such a synopsis as less than nothing you and your ff cronies fit the bill nicely

See you next Tuesday Mary.

Spot on Mary! They’re all a pack of useless gobshites!

Apart from the book also she’s teeing up her son to regain her seat in the next election.

Mary O’Rourke, are you the pot or the kettle?

Why do people still actually pay any attention to what this silly old has been has to say?

Remember when Mary was Minister for Transport – the wonderful spats with Michael O’Leary (allegedly by phone in the bath on one occasion)?

Anyway, at some point during her tenure she completely lost the plot and, inspired by the Chunnel, proposed the construction of a tunnel to Wales!

But she’s right. The present bunch in Dáil Éireann are, like their predecessors, below par.

Good luck with the book Mary…

Cairo……..it’s MARY O’ROURKE…….don’t use that expression of the pot and the kettle because the next word would BLACKED out!

Love this women, wish she was my Mammy :) love or hate her, she is never one to shy away from saying it as it is and yes, with the exception of a few, i agree with analysis of the current residents of the dail.

Stupid auld fellas! Ha hilarious and so true.

Well if Mammy “Working Like Blacks” O’Rouke says it, it must be true. Article should read “FFer dislikes FG and thinks FF is better”.

We’ve always been led by intellectual light weights, why should this lot be different.

The qualities needed for a CV for a TD are as seen by all recent governments
Greedy, Ruthless, non compassionate, Corrupt, Liar, Cheat, self important, Egotistical, Thief, Fraudulent, Criminal, Two-faced , and intelligence is certainly not required just look at them. If you had any sense you wouldent get involved with criminals.

I love that I read this and THEN realised it was Jason :-)

People hated Fianna Fail because of all the lies built up over the years, the level of corruption and greed, and because they lined their own pockets while letting the country get sucked into a big hole and never bothered to do anything about it. People got fed up of voting in a party that didn’t give two shits about the public.

The only real alternative was FG & Labour, people wanted a more right politics in Ireland hence why Fianna Fail were voted in so often. Plus FG & Labour were the party to get us out of the last mess Fianna Fail put us in.

Its a bit odd, her choice of words, seeing as it was her own party (who she seems to be claiming are super intelligent) that fucked up and couldn’t fix the problem. So, apparently, the Irish are so thick they elected dumb idiots to run the country (again!) and it would appear Mary thinks we are in a bigger problem than her party left us in.

But.. we are seeing more positive news on the job front and unemployment rates, Ireland heading back to the markets early, a lot less drama around our finances, budgets that are tough but seem to be working, etc. Not a walk in the park by any means and we are still a country in despair, but things are looking up a bit.

Enda, Brian or Bertie? I would pick Enda. Might seem a bit dumbed down alright, but that’s because we are not used to someone who is hard working (which to be fair, he is), is all smiles, active, friendly, vocal, etc.

Does not compute. Conclusion? Mary missing the attention.

She honestly thinks that the hate we had for Brian Cowen was about his lack of smiling and his scouring? No, it was because he wasn’t capable of doing his job. And could she tell me what Micheal Martin is doing in opposition? Well nothing bar claim thousands in extra leaders expenses.