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.
