The World - News from July 7, 1989

Ireland’s caretaker Prime Minister Charles Haughey, abandoning his resistance to a coalition government, began a week of talks with Desmond O’ Malley, leader of the Progressive Democrats in an effort to form a new government. “A new political era is in sight,” O’ Malley told deputies in Parliament as his small center-right party began its battle for Cabinet seats alongside Haughey, whose Fianna Fail party has never shared power in its 63-year history. Parliament agreed to adjourn until next Wednesday when it hopes to pick a new prime minister and end a monthlong political crisis.