Paul Sammon: Shane Ross has stolen Fianna Fáil’s clothes and PJ Mara’s tactics

All the parties have a doppelganger – for FF it’s the Independent Alliance’s rural, local hopefuls

Fianna Fáil Ardfheis: Whoops from the party faithful

Pre-election mood was in full swing, as delegates were eager to get back canvassing

Fianna Fáil is changing but not quickly enough

The party has struggled to articulate a clear message or project itself in a way which those outside its base can identify

PJ Mara ‘made friends everywhere’, funeral Mass hears

Denis O’Brien among the pallbearers at service for former Fianna Fáil strategist

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Miriam Lord: PJ Mara was a charming, disarming spin doctor

The FF strategist gave the impression he found the whole political thing a bit of a lark

PJ Mara, Fianna Fáil’s supreme strategist, dies at 73

Key Haughey adviser was also director of elections for Ahern’s three victories

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PJ Mara obituary: flamboyant character who was central to FF for three decades

‘PJ Mara doesn’t so much do a job as weave a spell. His social skills are described in terms approaching awe’

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PJ Mara: Faithful political operative who flattered to deceive

Savvy Fianna Fáil strategist whose loyalty to party and political tribe trumped probity

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Former government press secretary PJ Mara dies

Tributes paid to ‘most effective campaign director in Irish political history’

PJ Mara on his screen persona: ‘Colin Firth should play me’

Colin Teevan – screenwriter for the 2015 TV series ‘Charlie’ – recalls meeting the late Government press secretary PJ Mara while researching the script

PJ Mara: Tributes paid to ‘extraordinarily intelligent’ man

‘He was a multi-layered, multi-faceted man. The notion he was Haughey’s gopher is not real.’

Digicel’s Burmese days in doubt

Reports indicate Denis O’Brien may have given up on business in Burma

It’s the racy reds versus the battling blues as CWC gets ready to rumble

Television: Wolf Hall is not your usual bodice ripper

The BBC’s Tudor drama is literate and atmospheric; an Irish documentary on being gay is quietly powerful when it stays on home ground; and the last word on RTÉ’s ‘Charlie’