Yesterday’s Sunday Independent Living section
Splutter!
Gary B writes:
There are many things I wish not to hear from self-styled Super Mammy, Mary O’Rourke but her first sexual experience would perhaps be even less welcome than any of her FF politics, causing, as it did, a ruined Sunday lunch yesterday.
The late Fianna Fáil finance minister Brian Lenihan with his aunt Mary O’Rourke on Miriam O’Callaghan’s RTE R1 show, Miriam Meets
You’ll recall how, in January, Central Bank governor Professor Patrick Honohan told the banking inquiry that the late Brian Lenihan, then finance minister, was overruled by a senior politician on the night of the bank guarantee in September 2008.
He said he understood Mr Lenihan thought that Irish Nationwide Building Society and Anglo Irish Bank should have been nationalised.
At the weekend, the Irish Times reported that former Taoiseach Brian Cowen said there was no question that he overruled Mr Lenihan.
Further to this, RTÉ reports:
Former Fianna Fáil minister Mary O’Rourke has confirmed the family of the late Brian Lenihan has requested input into the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry.”
“Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Ms O’Rourke said it is a fact of life that one of the main figures in the committee’s deliberations who cannot be with them is her nephew, the late Mr Lenihan.”
She says it has struck her forcibly “that those to whom he may have confided in on some matters should be given a chance to come before the committee to speak their mind.”
“We wish to put the committee under notice that we will be following events and listening to what the witnesses will be saying internally about the late Brian Lenihan and we wish, if necessary, to render the recommendations of the committee more complete.”
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She said she does not have papers or records belonging to Brian Lenihan; he did confide in her on many things, as he did to Conor Lenihan. “I do not have papers or records but I have a memory. I am lucky that it is a good memory.”
Family of Brian Lenihan requests input into Banking Inquiry (RTÉ)
Previously: “They Bought Into It”
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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