Briefing: FF grudgingly comes to terms with two-election strategy

Ambition to secure a seat in every constituency is scuppered by Dublin’s electorate

After four years as Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin faces as many challenges as everBarbara Lindberg

Fianna Fáil’s founder Eamon de Valera once said that you should always keep your policy under your hat. What he meant was that his party should shy away from defining itself too precisely, so as to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.

Over the past two years, Fianna Fáil appeared to be taking the advice too literally, with a dearth of policy papers. But in the last two weeks there have ...