Micheál Martin has been named Ireland’s new prime minister nearly five months after an inconclusive election that shattered the twin pillars of Irish politics and forced them to finally govern together
DUBLIN — Micheál Martin has been named Ireland’s new prime minister nearly five months after an inconclusive election that shattered the twin pillars of Irish politics and forced them to finally govern together.
Instead, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will become government partners for the first time, ending nearly a century of enmity borne from their roots in opposite sides of Ireland’s brutal 1922-23 civil war. Left out of power — and instead rising to fill the vacuum as leader of the opposition in Ireland’s parliament — is the Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin.
The special session could not be held in Leinster House, Ireland's parliamentary building, as it proved too cramped amid the COVID-19 crisis. Instead, lawmakers disinfected their hands in the lobby of the Dublin Convention Centre, then fanned out to the far corners of its 1,995-seat auditorium.
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