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RADIO REVIEW:THE PROSPECT of a cosy chat with Miriam O’Callaghan on Miriam Meets(RTÉ Radio One, Sundays) didn’t exactly turn my dial. But it did when I heard Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke was on live with her nephew, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan. It was illuminating and entertaining with (almost) no talk of Nama, writes QUENTIN FOTTRELL

O’Callaghan suggested it wasn’t inevitable that, as a woman, O’Rourke would inherit her father’s seat. “But it was in my mind inevitable,” she replied. She turned down an offer from Charlie Haughey in 1982 to take on Women’s Affairs. “He banged down the phone,” she said. (He called back to offer her Education.) This amused her nephew no end. “Well, it’s so like you Mary, you’re certainly a femme formidable when you get going. ”