DUBLIN: Irish deputy Prime Minister Frances Fitzgerald is resigning in a bid to ease a political crisis that was threatening to bring down the government, Ireland´s public broadcaster RTE reported on Tuesday.
The crisis erupted last week and could have led to snap elections before Christmas, at a critical time for Ireland ahead of an EU summit where the future of the Irish border after Brexit will dominate. RTE said Fitzgerland told cabinet colleagues that she was "resigning for the sake of the country and to avoid a general election".
The resignation means that a no-confidence motion put forward in parliament by the main opposition Fianna Fail party "has been dropped and so too has the threat of a pre-Christmas election," RTE reported.
11-29-2017, 02:00 PM
Irish deputy PM resigns
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