The Mammy of the Dail gets another punch in

Mary O’Rourke was never one to shy away from controversy, so are people surprised that she has recently decided to bash Brian Cowen’s time as Taoiseach? Her nephew, Brian Lenihan has already criticised Cowen is a free Dublin newspaper, but that wouldn’t stop Mammy from having a go.

O’Rourke said that Cowen should have left office after the incident in the Galway think-in last year, when he gave that interview with Morning Ireland.

“He should have gone after the radio appearance but he was a good leader up to a point. That episode was pivotal in the wrong way for the Fianna Fail) party but having said that, I wish him well.

“It did seem to get to a point where it seemed he didn’t want to engage with the public.”

However, this is not the first time O’Rourke had a go at Brian Cowen in public. When she was still in office, she tweeted that Cowen needed to release a date for the election, which was retweeted by over 100 people.

This probably isn’t the last dig we’ll get from Mary O’Rourke, She’s a chat show favourite and has appeared on The Late Late Show, Midday and other similar shows many times. I even managed to have a run in with her when I was 16-years-old (click the image with Sunday Tribune).

After she failed to get re-elected, O’Rourke said she was going to leave politics to spend more time with her grandchildren and write her book.

The Mammy of the Dail gets another punch in