The party will have to deal not only with the sullying of Bertie's legacy but also the nexus between Fianna Fáil, major property speculators/builders and the financial institutions – the so-called "golden circle".
Asynchronous, robust, distributed technologies like mailing lists and text messaging completed the picture, allowing coordinators to maintain links between this nexus of activity and the growing community of donors, potential volunteers and activists that sprawled across the entire north-east region.
It was a role that put him at the nexus of public life and while he lapped up the contacts he remained steely.
Many villains have been blamed for Mumbai's descent into urban hell, from mafia dons to impoverished migrants, but for the past three decades the main culprit is the "politician-builder nexus".
Aside from the Celtic Tiger's collapse and the loss of economic sovereignty when Ireland was bailed out by the IMF and the European Central Bank, Fianna Fáil lost the faith of an electorate who perceived the party as too close to a nexus of bankers, speculators, builders and other corporate interests.
It was only after the reformist Dr Garret Fitzgerald took control of Fine Gael and tried to make the Republic a more secular place to live in that the nexus between the church and the party finally began to break up.
Stalin Dayanand from Vanashakti, an environmental group that petitioned at the High Court, thinks that nothing will change so long as affordable housing is not constructed for migrants, who crowd into low-lying areas near deltas and on sinking coasts, and so long as the developer-politician nexus continues.
On Tuesday, that nexus was exposed in a damning report investigating Lowry's role as a minister when O'Brien was bidding for a lucrative mobile phone license.
India and Israel have seen their foundational commitments to collective welfare reconfigured by a nexus of neoliberal extremists and majoritarian nationalists, who hope to bludgeon their disaffected minorities into loyalty to a "Jewish state" and a "Hindu nation".
Increasingly they are seeing their own economies, particularly India and China, as better bets.Added to this is the growth in stature of business schools outside the American-Europe nexus.
The successful candidate will combine a strong technical background with the ability to write simply and entertainingly about the dismal science in general, and the nexus between economics and business in particular.
