With Brian Lenihan joining Mary Robinson and Austin Currie in the line-up for the first presidential contest since 1973 and the first three-cornered election in forty-five years, Colm Connolly looks at the history of the presidency in Ireland.
Report shows military ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin.
Painting of Dr Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland.
Archive footage of Douglas Hyde's inaugural ceremony.
Graphics on the results of the 1945 election.
Photographs of Seán Thomas O'Kelly, who won the election in 1945.
Graphics on the outcome of the 1959 and 1966 elections.
Archive footage of Erskine Childers, who took office in 1973.
Graphic on the result of the 1973 election.
Photograph of Erskin Childers.
Photograph of Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, who succeeded Childers in 1974.
Archive footage of Ó Dálaigh who resigned two years into his presidency.
President Patrick Hillery and his wife, Maeve Hillary, departing from Áras an Uachtaráin.
The reporter is Colm Connolly.
