Kelleher and Gavin to go head-to-head for Fianna Fail presidential nomination

Billy Kelleher aims to win the Fianna Fail nomination to run for president. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Fianna Fail MEP Billy Kelleher and former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin will formally go head-to-head for the party’s nomination to contest the presidential election.

The party had opened a nomination process which required a potential candidate to secure support of at least five members of the parliamentary party.