irish presidential election, 1990

In the Irish presidential election in 1990 the Irish Labour Party let it be known that it would for the first time run a candidate. It chose as its candidate Mary Robinson, SC., a former senator and liberal campaigner. Fianna Fil let it be known that it would run n Tnaiste Brian Lenihan, TD, though he faced a late challenge for the party nomination from another senior minister, John Wilson, TD. Fine Gael, after trying and failing to get former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and former Tnaiste Peter Barry to run, it settled on new Fine Gael TD and former Social Democratic and Labour Party minister in Northern Ireland Austin Currie. Lenihan entered the race as odds-on favourite; no Fianna Fil candidate had ever lost a presidential election. However Lenihan was derailed when he confirmed in an on-the-record interview with freelance journalist and academic researcher Jim Duffy that he had been involved in controversial attempts to pressurise President Hillery over a controversial parliamentary dissolution in 1982. When the contrast between his public denials during the campaign and his confirmation during his earlier interview (recorded in May) he was dismissed from the Irish government. In a shock outcome, Labour's Mary Robinson beat Austin Currie, forcing Fine Gael's candidate into a humiliating third place. Robinson then beat Lenihan on transfers on the second count, to become the seventh president of Ireland. The results were as follows:

Candidate	Party	1st Preference	Share of Vote	Status
Mary Robinson	align="right" \| Labour	align="center" \| 612,265	align="center" \| 38.88%	align="center" \| Made Quota
Brian Lenihan	align="right" \| Fianna Fil	align="center" \| 694,484	align="center" \| 44.10%	align="center" \| Eliminated
Austin Currie	align="right" \| Fine Gael	align="center" \| 267,902	align="center" \| 17.01%	align="center" \| Eliminated

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