Fianna Fáil faces a fight for its presidential nomination as Billy Kelleher warns against giving Jim Gavin a coronation

Micheál Martin backs former Dubs boss for Áras and says MEP’s name never came up in conversations about candidates

Jim Gavin has Micheál Martin's backing, but Billy Kelleher is not giving up

The battlelines are being drawn for the future leadership of Fianna Fáil, with Jim O’Callaghan, and Jack Chambers now on differing sides of the presidential nomination race.

O’Callaghan is one of the few senior Fianna Fáil ministers not to have endorsed former GAA manager Jim Gavin, who is the leadership’s choice to enter the race.

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