Coalition looms in Ireland
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-12-02Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 5
LIVES December 12, at Hyde Park for rally and march to Jubilee Gardens. Vigil from 6pm to midnight outside Polish embassy for workers killed or detained by Jaruzelski's regime.
Polish Solidarity Campaign, (01) 748 3085. IT IS to be either a minority Fine Gael governmentsupported by Labour, or a new Fine Gael/Labour coalition government in the 26 Counties of southern Ireland.
The Labour Party is meeting in conference on December 12 to decide.
Fianna Fail is still the biggest party in the Dail (Parliament), though Fine Gael, for 50 years the 'underdog' of the bourgeois parties, has gained nearly 30 seats in the three general elections of the last 18 months.
The Labour Party left did badly. Michael D Higgins, anti-coalitionist and recently the candidate of the for Party leader, lost seat.
So did Independent Socialist Party deputy Jim Kemmy from Limerick, the only TD [MP] to march in the recent 2,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin against the proposed anti-abortion amendment to the Irish constitution. The secularist and anti-nationalist Kemmy was a victim of a sustained campaign against him by the Irish SPUC.
Sinn Fein, which did badly in the last southern election, did not contest any seats.
Higgins
Scan page 6
Socialist 1982. Page 6 Organiser 11. December 10. xX