Irish government in crisis as coalition partners pull out

Channel News Asia Sunday 23rd January, 2011

DUBLIN: Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen's government was in tatters on Sunday after the junior coalition partners pulled out, in move likely to spark elections even earlier than those planned for March 11.Green Party leader John Gormley told a press conference in Dublin that "our patience has reached an end" after a week of political turmoil that resulted in Cowen quitting as leader of his ruling Fianna Fail party on Saturday."Because of these continuing doubts, the lack of communication and the breakdown in trust, we have decided that we can no longer continue in government," Gormley said after talks with his party's national executive.However, he said his six lawmakers would support a finance bill seen as vital to securing a 67-billion-euro (90-billion-dollar) international ba...

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