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...long-awaited press conference in Dublin's Parliament building, 67-year-old Prime Minister Sean Le-mass announced his reluctant conclu sion that "responsibility should now pass to a younger man." The next day in the same smoky conference room, the 71 members of Lemass' Fianna Fail Party selected their new Prime Minister and Taoiseach (leader of the clan): former Finance Minister John Mary Lynch...
...only thing wrong with last week's general election in Ireland was that it didn't solve anything. The campaign was one of the shortest on record -lasting only four weeks after Premier Sean Lemass decided to take his Fianna Fail Party to the country...
...were called for by narrowly beaten candidates. In Longford, West Meath, the loser claimed that mental patients in Mullingar hospital, allowed to vote for the first time, had been subject to undue influence by their doctors. With three seats subject to recount, at week's end Lemass' Fianna Fail held 71 seats, a rise of one; Fine Gael, 46. Labor won 21 seats and Independents captured three. With almost half of the 144 seats in the Dail and the support of at least one independent, Lemass could govern Ireland-but just barely...
...very word socialism terrifies Fianna Fail supporters, who are not only overwhelmingly Catholic but include many small landowners. Yet one-third of all industrial enterprises in Ireland today are bankrolled by the government, which has gone farther toward nationalization than even Britain's Socialists advocate. Lemass says he shares the attitude toward socialism that was expressed in the late Pope John's encyclical, Pacem in Terris: that no political system is undesirable if it benefits the people...
Some politicians criticize Lemass for being too much of a pragmatist. "He's a bit of a fly-boy," said Labor Party Leader James Larkin. "He trims his sails to different winds." The greatest challenge that Lemass has to face as a politician is to revitalize drab, unimaginative Fianna Fail, many of whose front-bench heroes of destiny have been around since Dev first came to office. Seven of the 13 members of the Lemass Cabinet are 60 or under, which is a relatively green age in Irish politics but hardly green enough...