Sinn Fein, the political ally of the Irish Republican Army, has won five seats in the Irish general election. Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail is expected to win a convincing victory when final results are announced later on Sunday. Centre-right Fianna Fail had won 74 of the 166 seats in the lower house of parliament early on Sunday, with 149 results declared. However, Ahern dampened expectations he would gain the 83 seats required for an outright parliamentary majority. "I think we'll be on 80 to 81 (seats), which is what I said it would be all along -- and then we'd have to look at where we go from there," he told state broadcaster RTE.

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