SENIOR figures within Fianna Fáil have strongly signalled a preference for an agreed candidate to succeed Bertie Ahern as party leader and taoiseach.

The Dáil is to hold a special debate next Tuesday on the controversy surrounding payments to the Taoiseach in 1993 and 1994.

The RT Greenmount Rallysprint at the new state of the art Limerick Racecourse went down to the wire.