O’Rourke urges FF and FG to ‘bridge the divide’

Veteran Fianna Fáil minister Mary O’Rourke has called on the party to consider coalition with its traditional enemy, Fine Gael.

The ex-deputy leader insisted it was time for the two parties to put aside a dispute over a “treaty signed in London in far off days” and look to working together.

Ms O’Rourke, in an address to the William Carlton Summer School, Co Tyrone, urged the great rivals of Irish politics to “bridge the divide” separating them.