Miriam Lord: Dublin Bay South gears up for the battle of the barristers
Senior counsel Jim O’Callaghan has his work cut out to get an FF candidate over the line
about 3 hours ago
Senior counsel and TD Jim O’Callaghan will have to abandon his listening tour of the shires and return to the capital now he has been appointed Fianna Fáil’s director of elections for the barristers’ bumper byelection in Dublin Bay South. Local councillors Claire O’Connor and Deirdre Conroy, both lawyers, are seeking the party nomination.
Last June, O’Callaghan selflessly turned down the offer of a junior counsel, sorry, junior ministerial position in Micheál Martin’s Government to concentrate on “strengthening our great party” and attracting new members by putting himself about all over the country as one of Fianna Fáil’s “strong voices” outside government.