Brian Lenihan won the nomination for Fianna Fáil candidate for the presidency at a meeting of the Parliamentary Party this morning. He defeated the Minister for the Marine, John Wilson, by fifty-one votes to nineteen.
Report shows Brian Lenihan being applauded by Fianna Fáil colleagues as he joins them for a photo-call outside Leinster House.
News conference to launch the Fianna Fáil presidential campaign showing giant 'Brian for President' poster overlooking the press conference.
An Taoiseach, Charles Haughey addressing the press conference on the importance of the role of President.
Brian Lenihan saying that an expanded role for the presidency is not an issue in this campaign.
Photograph of a young Brian Lenihan.
Archive footage of Brian Lenihan campaigning.
Archive footage of Leinster House.
Archive footage of Brian Lenihan speaking in a radio studio and receiving the seal of office from Éamon de Valera.
Archive footage of Lenihan unveiling plaque.
1973 newspaper headline on Lenihan 's loss of his Roscommon seat.
Archive footage of Brian Lenihan with former Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, during the arms crisis.
Footage of Lenihan with Charles Haughey during a leadership crisis in the early 1980s.
Footage of Lenihan and Haughey together in an airplane.
Lenihan at Iveagh House during his serious illness a few years ago.
Recent footage of Brian Lenihan with French President, Francois Mitterand, and with former Northern Ireland Secretary, Tom King.
The reporters are Donal Kelly and Seán Duignan.
