O'Rourke: FF got what it deserved

Mary O'Rourke, who lost her seat in Longford Westmeath yesterday, has said the Fianna Fáil party "got what it deserved".

There are now no Fianna Fáil TDs in Meath, Tipperary, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo or Kerry.

Other big hitters that have lost their seat along with Mary O'Rourke are the Tánaiste Mary Coughlan, Pat Carey and Sean Haughey, while Mary Hanafin's seat in Dun Laoghaire is doubtful.

Ms O'Rourke said: "We deserved a fair bit of what happened to us. I would have liked to have been a part of the rebuilding challenge.

"Maybe I will slot myself somewhere in the process, in a voluntary sense of course, to get the party ship-shape again."