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...finally came. In a 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...
Religious antagonisms have long been strong in Ireland, especially since 1690, when Britain's "Glorious Revolution" secured Protestant ascendancy to Ulster. To try to ease the old hatreds, Protestant O'Neill broke all precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley...
Prime Minister O'Neill, 51, who leads the pro-British Unionist Party, has shrewdly helped quiet the pro-Eire agitation by doing earlier this year what no other Ulster P.M. ever dared do: he invited Ireland's Premier Sean Lemass for lunch in Belfast. Many of O'Neill's supporters were outraged, but the dapper, six-foot aristocrat blithely ignored his Orangemen's indignation. "I hoped to establish more normal relations with our southern neighbors," he said coolly. "Since we share the same island, this is surely sensible...
After 3½ years of rule dependent on an alliance with independent members of the Dail-the Irish lower house-Lemass hoped to get a working majority. The opposition came from the Fine Gael Party led by James Dillon and the small but aggressive Labor Party of Brendan Corish. Lemass could, and did, campaign on the economic progress of recent years (TIME cover July 12, 1963). Fine Gael and Labor concentrated their fire on the lack of welfare planning. Fine Gael, which is normally conservative and devoted to free enterprise, veered left and proposed a "more equitable distribution...
...constituencies, recounts 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...