Jim O'Callaghan
speaker
581 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Jim O'Callaghan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But remember the narrative in 2011 when Neil Martin took over.
Fianna Fáil's finished.
You're never getting back.
He's never going to be Taoiseach.
We're now the largest party in the Oireachtas, we're the largest party in local government, and we have, I think, the equivalent number of largest in the European Parliament.
Sometimes, with the greatest of respect to journalists, sometimes politicians are entitled to stand up for themselves.
Like Fianna Fáil has been a remarkably successful political party.
And take into account the global financial crisis and the fact that we are now the largest party in the Oireachtas.
So we're an extremely resilient party.
We've done a huge amount in this country in terms of making this country the successful post-colonial independent country that it is.
I'm reading Sean LaMasse's book at present, written by Rona McGreevy.
People forget what this country was like in, say, the 30s or the 40s, or when we got our independence.
I think there's a real benefit in Fianna Fáil because we're a centre ground national party.
We seek to represent the interests of all sections of Irish society.
We don't concentrate on a particular grouping within Irish society.
Look at our record.
Look at the fact that we're the party that actively wants to seek Irish reunification.
We're the party that has redistributed wealth very significantly within the country.
We have built up the economy to where it is today.
Like when I go to other countries, I'm sorry, I'm not trying to diminish the challenges here.
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