Brian Lenihan with his aunt Mary O’Rourke on Miriam O’Callaghan’s RTE R1 show, Miriam Meets’
THE enormous stress of the night of the bank guarantee may have caused Brian Lenihan’s pancreatic cancer, his aunt Mary O’Rourke believes.
She says that Brian, then Minister for Finance, was under tremendous pressure when the bank executives came into Government Buildings on the historic night in September 2008 to beg for help to stop them going bust. It ended with them getting a state guarantee.
“On a human level I believe that that night of huge burdens on Brian and all the many stresses of the time which followed took a massive toll on his health, and may even have sown the seeds of his pancreatic cancer,” Mrs O’Rourke writes in her new book.
Stress Of Saving Banks Caused Brian Lenihan’s Cancer, Says Mary O’Rourke (Independent.ie)
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