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...leaders of the small Labor party convinced Robinson to take their party's nomination. No politician from an opposition party had defeated a candidate from the ruling party, Fianna Fail, since...
...wrote an essay saying that his ambition in life was to serve in the I.R.A. His parents were proud. By 14, he was frequently detained by police for running guns. By 16, he was old enough to be sent to prison, charged with weapons possession and membership in Fianna, the junior branch of the illegal I.R.A. He served eight years. Now McConville, 38, wears a tie, runs an antidrug program while toiling on a master's degree in computer science. He is still active in the republican movement, albeit in its nonviolent branch. An agreement, he says, was necessary even...
Ireland's Prime Minister Albert Reynolds resigned today following the withdrawal of a key political party from the coalition that kept him in power yesterday . He did not ask for a general election -- leaving his Fianna Fail party scrambling to find a new leader who commands the support of a parliamentary majority. Reynolds lost the backing of the Labour party over the appointment of a judge accused of delaying the extradition of a priest charged with child molestation in Northern Ireland. If a new prime minister satisfactory to Labour cannot be found, national elections would then be held, delaying...
...general polling, the long-ruling Fianna Fail Party suffered its worst setback in 50 years, losing at least 10 of its 77 seats in the 166-member Dail, while the big winner was the Labour Party, which more than doubled its parliamentary roster. It remained unclear whether the new coalition government will be headed by Fianna Fail's Albert Reynolds, the current Prime Minister, or Labour's Dick Spring, now Ireland's most popular politician...
...I.R.A. broke up the formal structure of the Fianna after the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and British intelligence forces had too often managed to squeeze information out of its members. The numbers of Fianna children who were killed, not just in riots or military operations, but in accidents as well, were also bad for public relations...