Ireland’s Micheal Martin to lead historic Irish coalition

LONDON (AP) — Centrist politician Micheal Martin has become Ireland’s prime minster in a deal that fuses two longtime rival parties into a coalition government. The deal will see Martin’s Fianna Fail govern with Fine Gael, the party of outgoing leader Leo Varadkar, and with the smaller Green Party. Fine Gael and Fianna Fail are bitter opponents with roots in opposing sides of the civil war that followed Ireland’s independence from the United Kingdom. This their first gove