Mary O'Rourke (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

-----and which is not going on its silly way of never putting forward an option.

Oddly enough, one knows how all the newspapers stated we would be scorched at the doorsteps and people would slice our heads off, give out to us and say this and that, but nobody has attempted to give out to me, to slice my head off-----

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