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Prime Minister Cosgrave was said to be "severely shocked by the escapade," particularly since his eight-month-old government had boasted that its tight security and tough crackdowns had kept the Provo gunmen under control. The opposition Fianna Fáil Party immediately blasted the government for its "incompetence in security matters...
...office of President. He is London-born Erskine Childers, 67, a former Cabinet member, son of Robert Erskine Childers, an Englishman who involved himself in the Irish struggle for independence and paid for it with a martyr's death. Erskine Childers, who is a member of the conservative Fianna Fail, which lost control of the government three months ago, defeated Thomas O'Higgins, the candidate of the governing Fine Gael and Labor coalition, by a vote of 636,162 to 587,577. When he starts his seven-year term later this month, Childers will succeed Eamon de Valera...
Alas, it was all in vain. The night after the election, it was clear that the Fianna Fáil, which has ruled Ireland for 35 of the past 41 years, had been narrowly defeated by a new coalition of the conservative Fine Gael (United Ireland) and the socialist Labor Party. "There is no use playing politics," an exhausted Jack Lynch told the country on television at 2 a.m. "I don't think we are going to form a government...
...coalition's victory -by a thin but workable margin of about four seats in the 144-member Lower House or Dail-was probably the result less of specific issues than of a widespread feeling that after 16 straight years the Fianna Fáil had been in office long enough...
...partners are in full accord on how to deal with the I.R.A., and they have no quarrel with Jack Lynch's decision last fall to jail a handful of I.R.A. extremists. "I've been very strong on the internal security question for years, long before Fianna Fáil was," Cosgrave told TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante last week. The coalition's record on the I.R.A., adds O'Brien, is "more thoroughly consistent" than the former government's-meaning that the new regime will be just as tough as Lynch was and maybe tougher...