"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?"
"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?"
Jim O'Callaghan combines a background as a former rugby player and a prominent barrister with local visibility as the "big man on the bike" in south Dublin. He is widely regarded as a likely successor to Micheál Martin and now faces consequential decisions about whether to act on that opportunity. Micheál Martin is depicted as weakened by disarray and long hours on the Martin clock, and the party is shown as embattled after the Jim Gavin fiasco. Uncertainty remains about whether O'Callaghan has the appetite to initiate a leadership coup.
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