O’Rourke: FF will not be in government after general election

FIANNA Fáil’s Mary O’Rourke came under criticism from party colleagues for conceding during a radio interview that the party would not get into Government after the next election.

The former minister said her party will have “the donkey’s work done” in terms of rescuing the economy when the other parties “come in” to succeed them.

Asked if she accepted the party would not be in Government after the next general election, she said: “As of now, with 24%, how could we be? We just couldn’t be so there is no point in pie in the sky talk either.”