WITH NEARLY ALL THE VOTES FROM FRIDAY'S ELECTION COUNTED, THE IRISH PR...

World | May 19, 2002, Sunday // 00:00

With nearly all the votes from Friday's election counted, the Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and his Fianna Fail party have emerged as easy winners in the country's general election. But it is still not clear if Mr Ahern - who has presided over what he has called Ireland's "golden times" of economic fortune - will realise his dream of forming the country's first government for more than 25 years with an outright majority. The results also showed big gains for Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, with the party capturing a seat held for more than 20 years by former Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring, of the Labour Party. Even before all the results had been counted, the leader of the main opposition Fine Gael party, Michael Noonan, resigned.

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