Angry Irish Set to Ditch Government in ‘Historic’ Election
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Irish voters go to the polls today, with anger over the collapse of the economy and the cost of rescuing banks expected to result in the biggest shift of political power in the country’s history.
Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael will emerge as the biggest party and may form a government with the Labour Party or the support of independent lawmakers, polls suggest. Fianna Fail, which dominated Irish politics for eight decades and has governed since 1997, faces its worst-ever election after Ireland resorted to an 85 billion-euro ($117 billion) bailout in November.