Once best known as the ‘brother of Miriam’, the former rugby player and top barrister is tipped as the man to replace Micheál Martin. But does he have the stomach for a coup? John Downing profiles the leader in waiting
Party spokes-man: Could Jim O’Callaghan be the next FF leader? Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
The “big man on the bike” – ubiquitous in the leafy south Dublin suburbs – now has big decisions to make.
Does Jim O’Callaghan move swiftly to capitalise on Micheál Martin’s disarray, compounded by arduous miles on the Martin clock, when he comes across as an embattled party leader in the wake of the Jim Gavin fiasco?