CAN PJ O'Meara do for Jim Mitchell what PJ Mara did for Charlie Haughey? Not, Quidnunc hastens to add, that there is any comparison between the two principals. Mitchell, the Kenneth Starr of Kildare Street, has taken on O'Meara, a policy researcher in FG headquarters in Mount Street, as an assistant for the PAC hearings on DIRT. While he mostly deals with the press, he can be spotted daily sitting behind the chairman on the box. O'Meara, they say, is nothing like the original PJ, not yet anyway, and he's not a Dub but from Co Tipp.
Mitchell's man says some have joked that he should change his name because when they're being put through on the phone they think they are on to FF instead of FG. But, Quidnunc wants to know, will he go on to inspire a book and a comedy character.