O’Rourke refuses to apologise
Despite her reluctance to say sorry for praising staff who "worked like blacks", the Seanad leader welcomed an initiative from multi-cultural watchdogs for a national awareness project to specifically target casual so-called "hate speech".
Ms O'Rourke insisted there was nothing wrong with her use of the controversial phrase after she won a place on Fianna Fail's Dáil ticket in Longford-Westmeath and the furore which greeted it was "political correctness gone wrong".
