Ireland's ruling party heading for worst ever defeat

Angry voters on remote Irish islands have gone to the polls two days early in national elections likely to bring the worst election defeat ever for Ireland's ruling party after a huge popular backlash against an EU-IMF austerity programme. A ballot box is transported to Inishfree Island off the coast of Donegal Voting in Ireland's general election began yesterday on the remote windswept islands off the rugged Atlantic coasts of Donegal, Mayo and Galway because of potential bad weather delays to getting ballot boxes back to the mainland. Polling released as the islanders went to vote predicted that the Fianna...