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2020-02-10 00:55:42Z
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Sinn Fein on Threshold: Party With Old I.R.A. Ties Soars in Irish Election - The New York Times
DUBLIN — Sinn Fein, a leftist party long ostracized from Irish politics over its ties to sectarian violence, won the popular vote and seized its largest-ever share of parliamentary seats in the country’s national elections this weekend, according to results released on Sunday.
The vote loosened a 90-year stranglehold on power by two center-right parties in Ireland and put Sinn Fein on the doorstep of joining a coalition government, a remarkable rebuke to a political establishment that tried to paint it as aberrant and unelectable throughout the campaign.
Defying a reputation for extreme risk aversion, Irish voters ignored those warnings.
They gave Sinn Fein more votes than Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, in his Dublin district, though Ireland’s system of vote allocation allowed Mr. Varadkar to hold onto his parliamentary seat.
Irish voters delivered more votes to left-wing parties than they had in decades, realigning a center-heavy political system along class and ideological lines.
And they signaled that, more than a decade after the financial crash of 2008, the aftershocks of that event were still being felt, with voters punishing Ireland’s big party machines for adopting years of austerity and unapologetically business-friendly policies.
“This is changing the shape and mold of Irish politics,” Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Sinn Fein, told a crush of reporters at a Dublin convention center on Sunday. “This is not a transient thing — this is just the beginning.”
The voting results were preliminary, with about a third of the seats allocated. The final results are expected on Monday or Tuesday.
Sinn Fein used to be the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which fought for Irish unity during the decades-long sectarian conflict known as the Troubles.
But those ties have faded from memory for many younger voters. And, especially in this campaign, the party made opposition to soaring rental prices and corporate tax breaks the centerpiece of its campaign, using its long history of organizing and activism to present itself as the only party in touch with people’s day-to-day grievances.
Mr. Varadkar, for his part, was celebrated abroad for his success in negotiating a Brexit deal with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain that averted some of the most painful fallout of Britain’s split with the European Union. But at home he was facing growing anger over mounting health care costs and a housing shortage that has driven up rents and forced some young people to consider leaving the country.
The results were sobering for the duopoly that has long controlled Irish politics: Fine Gael, Mr. Varadkar’s center-right party, and Fianna Fail, the center-right opposition party. They have been trading power for decades.
Seat projections suggested that Fianna Fail was on track to win about 45 seats in the 160-seat Parliament, followed by Sinn Fein with 37 seats and Fine Gael with 36 seats. A number of smaller left-wing parties and independent lawmakers also won seats.
The results almost certainly would have been worse for the center-right parties had Sinn Fein, recovering from a poor showing in local elections last year and cautious about its prospects, not chosen to put forward only 42 candidates.
Control of Parliament will most likely be resolved in coalition negotiations over the coming weeks.
Both center-right parties had ruled out an alliance with Sinn Fein during the campaign, with Mr. Varadkar going so far as to say that Sinn Fein was “not a normal party.” But analysts said the prospect of the two big parties joining forces themselves was remote, given the fear that anything less than a stellar run in power might tee up Sinn Fein for an even stronger showing in next election.
That appears to leave a coalition between Sinn Fein and one of the center-right parties as a plausible way out of the stalemate.
Analysts believe Fianna Fail is the more likely candidate, given its desperation to return to power and its control of a larger share of parliamentary seats. But they warned that any agreement was far from sealed and the result of negotiations difficult to predict.
Sinn Fein also said it would try to form a coalition with other left-wing parties, though not all of them see eye to eye, either. A second election also remains a possibility.
Analysts said the conditions that fueled Sinn Fein’s rise mirrored those that have driven support in Britain for Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left Labour Party leader, and in the United States for the Democratic presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders. Chief among those conditions are young people suffering from low pay and skyrocketing rents, and widespread anger at tax breaks and gentrification.
But Sinn Fein’s anti-establishment campaign in Ireland is even more potent, untarnished as it is by any time in power.
“What this says, I think, is that in the right circumstances, the left can still make a very popular appeal,” said Michael Marsh, a professor at Trinity College Dublin. “But they’re able to do it in Ireland because the left has never been in power. In most of Europe, it has.”
Huge challenges lay ahead if Sinn Fein joins a coalition government.
The party made a number of bold promises during its campaign, including a vow to build 100,000 homes, a task that analysts believe will be complicated by the need to recruit more builders for Ireland’s growing construction industry.
Still, for voters disgusted by decades of stagnation in Irish politics, seeing anyone but the same old faces at the top of the polls was welcome.
At the Lark Inn, a pub in a part of central Dublin where Sinn Fein has long been popular, John Flood, 75, a retired interior decorator, sat at the bar as the television showed Ireland’s two main parties losing one seat after another.
Mr. Flood said homelessness was the most important problem facing the next government, a problem he said past governments had done little to solve.
“The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” Mr. Flood said, “but their policies all stay the same.”
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2020-02-10 00:29:00Z
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Ireland's left-wing nationalist Sinn Fein party surges in historic but inconclusive election - The Washington Post
DUBLIN — Ireland’s left-wing nationalist Sinn Fein party shattered the country’s center-right status quo in the weekend’s general election with its strongest-ever performance, throwing Irish politics into uncertainty.
First-preference vote counts showed Sinn Fein ahead of the two mainstream parties that have dominated Irish politics for nearly a century, as young voters embraced the long-marginalized party en masse.
The center-right Fine Gael party of Prime Minister Leo Varadkar suffered humiliating losses. In an embarrassing turn of events, Varadkar was outperformed by the left-wing nationalists in his own constituency, although he kept his seat under Irish electoral rules.
“This is no longer a two-party system,” said Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein, formerly the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.
Vote counting continued into Monday, but no party appeared to have an easy path to forming a majority government. If none achieves a breakthrough, a second election could be needed.
McDonald indicated that she would seek first to form a government with smaller parties. The leader of the center-right Fianna Fail party, Micheál Martin, said there was “an obligation on all” to ensure the formation of a functioning government.
Martin did not explicitly address the key question, however, of whether such a government could include Sinn Fein. At least one of his party’s members of Parliament pondered that possibility Sunday.
[Ahead of Irish election, Leo Varadkar is struggling, while Sinn Fein surges]
Ahead of the election, Martin and Varadkar both insisted they were not inclined to govern with the left-wing nationalists.
For the two center-right parties, Sinn Fein’s historical association with the IRA still weighs heavily. The IRA, loyalist paramilitaries and British troops killed about 3,600 people during the long conflict known as the Troubles, which centered on the IRA’s campaign from the 1960s until the late 1990s to force an end to British rule in Northern Ireland.
In an effort to move the party on from its controversial roots, McDonald, 50, framed herself as a progressive, urban leader. Her policies and her rise in politics after a childhood in a middle-class suburb of Dublin appeared to resonate with voters.
As her supporters waited for McDonald to arrive at a Dublin tally center on Sunday afternoon, they enthusiastically chanted, “Hello Mary Lou” — the 1961 song recorded by Ricky Nelson.
Her Sinn Fein party campaigned on a mix of nationalist proposals — including a reunification referendum — and left-wing positions, such as higher taxation of global corporations, a boost in public spending and residential rent freezes.
“Whereas the government would say the economy is doing well, a lot of people feel they haven’t achieved benefit from it,” said Irish News columnist and political commentator Deaglán de Bréadún. “Virtually everywhere you go in Dublin, for example, you will pass a location where someone is sleeping in a tent.”
In the center of Dublin, voters on Sunday echoed that sentiment.
Michael Doyle, 52, said he once supported Varadkar’s center-right party but voted for Sinn Fein for the first time Saturday.
“Homelessness and crime are a big thing, and the two big parties are not helping with that,” he said.
Kevin Burns, a 26-year-old Sinn Fein youth wing activist, said the party “spoke to the issues that are affecting everybody in this country.”
“The housing crisis and the health-care crisis, these things didn’t fall from the sky,” he said.
[Why the Irish border is a perpetual Brexit snag]
If Sinn Fein were to be included in a coalition in Dublin, it would become the first major party represented in the government of both Northern Ireland, where it is the second-largest party, and the Republic of Ireland.
The rapid gains in support for Sinn Fein appeared to have caught the party itself by surprise. After weak results in local elections last year, the party fielded 42 candidates — only about half as many as Fine Gael and Fianna Fail each put forward, and probably fewer than needed to fully capitalize on Saturday’s results. The threshold to form a majority government is 80 seats.
Varadkar never commanded such a majority. He was able to govern only because his center-right competitor Fianna Fáil had entered into a loose deal to keep the government in power in 2016.
Still, his international profile had steadily risen since he became premier in 2017 as the youngest-ever Irish leader at the age of 38.
The trained doctor backed grass-roots campaigns that pushed through the legalization of same-sex marriage and abortions, navigated difficult Brexit negotiations with the European Union and Britain and oversaw a phase of economic recovery.
In other E.U. capitals, Ireland was increasingly seen as a new liberal role model in recent years — with the gay and dual-heritage Varadkar as its poster boy.
After months of falling approval, however, Saturday’s vote could spell the end of Varadkar’s ambitions.
Noack reported from Dresden, Germany.
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2020-02-09 23:28:00Z
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China's Hubei province reports 91 new deaths from coronavirus on February 9 - Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 91 to 871 as of Sunday, the province’s health commission said in a statement on its website on Monday.
There had been a further 2,618 cases detected in Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak, taking the total in the province to 29,631.
Most of the new deaths were in Hubei’s provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated.
Wuhan reported 73 new deaths on Sunday, up from 63 on Saturday. A total of 681 people in Wuhan have now died from the virus.
New confirmed cases in Wuhan increased by 1,921 on Sunday, up from 1,379 on Saturday.
Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Daniel Wallis
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2020-02-09 22:30:00Z
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British Airways Boeing 747 Hits a Record 825 MPH During NYC-London Trip - The Drive
Although the British Isles are currently being slammed by Storm Ciara with flooding and gusting winds, the inclement weather has presented at least one benefit for travelers. While ground transportation has been delayed across the United Kingdom because of the intrepid downpours, those in the air are traveling faster than ever with massive tailwinds pushing flights along at record pace. In fact, one British Airways Boeing 747 traveled from New York to London in just four hours and 56 minutes, hitting a top ground speed of 825 miles per hour and setting a subsonic flight record for the route.
Saturday night, British Airways flight BA112 zoomed across the Atlantic Ocean, taking off from JFK at 6:21 p.m. New York time and landing at Heathrow around 4:47 a.m. GMT. Data acquired by plane-tracking site FlightRadar claims this to have been around 80 minutes ahead of schedule. For reference, the same source claims the average flight time from New York to London to be six hours and 13 minutes. That 250+ mph tailwind meant that the 747’s true airspeed was still below the speed of sound, but that doesn’t take away from how incredible it is to get across the Atlantic in just over four hours.
What's more, flight BA112 was one of three flights that beat the previously standing record set by Norwegian Airlines in 2018. It was one minute faster than a Virgin Airbus A350 flight which touched down just a few moments later, and it was three minutes faster than another Virgin flight which landed about 30 minutes afterward. Regardless, they were all far clear of the old benchmark which measured five hours and 13 minutes.
A spokesperson for British Airways told CNN, "We always prioritize safety over speed records, but our highly trained pilots made the most of the conditions to get customers back to London well ahead of time."
It should be mentioned that while flight BA112 smashed the subsonic record, the fastest time from NYC to London was set by the engineering marvel, Concorde. The aircraft's top commercial flight hit speeds of 1,350 mph and accomplished the route in just two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
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2020-02-09 20:48:35Z
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British Airways Boeing 747 Hits a Record 825 MPH During NYC-London Trip - The Drive
Although the British Isles are currently being slammed by Storm Ciara with flooding and gusting winds, the inclement weather has presented at least one benefit for travelers. While ground transportation has been delayed across the United Kingdom because of the intrepid downpours, those in the air are traveling faster than ever with massive tailwinds pushing flights along at record pace. In fact, one British Airways Boeing 747 traveled from New York to London in just four hours and 56 minutes, hitting a top ground speed of 825 miles per hour and setting a subsonic flight record for the route.
Saturday night, British Airways flight BA112 zoomed across the Atlantic Ocean, taking off from JFK at 6:21 p.m. New York time and landing at Heathrow around 4:47 a.m. GMT. Data acquired by plane-tracking site FlightRadar claims this to have been around 80 minutes ahead of schedule. For reference, the same source claims the average flight time from New York to London to be six hours and 13 minutes. That 250+ mph tailwind meant that the 747’s true airspeed was still below the speed of sound, but that doesn’t take away from how incredible it is to get across the Atlantic in just over four hours.
What's more, flight BA112 was one of three flights that beat the previously standing record set by Norwegian Airlines in 2018. It was one minute faster than a Virgin Airbus A350 flight which touched down just a few moments later, and it was three minutes faster than another Virgin flight which landed about 30 minutes afterward. Regardless, they were all far clear of the old benchmark which measured five hours and 13 minutes.
A spokesperson for British Airways told CNN, "We always prioritize safety over speed records, but our highly trained pilots made the most of the conditions to get customers back to London well ahead of time."
It should be mentioned that while flight BA112 smashed the subsonic record, the fastest time from NYC to London was set by the engineering marvel, Concorde. The aircraft's top commercial flight hit speeds of 1,350 mph and accomplished the route in just two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
h/t: Jalopnik
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2020-02-09 20:44:04Z
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China death toll passes that of SARS outbreak - Al Jazeera English
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2020-02-09 19:10:27Z
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