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It shows that support for the Fianna Fail party is at 21% ahead of polling day, only slightly ahead of their coalition partners Fine Gael and the largest opposition party Sinn Fein, who were neck-and-neck at 20%. The Red C-Business Post poll showed support for Fianna Fail unchanged, while Fine Gael had a slide of two percentage points and Sinn Fein gained two. The near dead-locked poll results came on Wednesday as fears over future economic threats took centre stage in the final stretch of the campaign. Taoiseach Simon Harris said he is taking a “project truth” approach to calling out Sinn Fein’s spending pledges as election results on the other side of the Atlantic put Ireland’s economic model into sharp relief. Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in the US has brought heightened concern around what his proposals for corporation tax and tariffs could mean for Ireland. Mr Harris, leader of Fine Gael, has argued Ireland and other EU countries need to prepare for the possibility of trade shocks as he criticised the scale of Sinn Fein’s spending pledges as well as their saving plans. He said: “I think that is irresponsible, I think it is dangerous and I think it is reckless.” He accused Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald of not being able to say what her party was prepared to do in the event of an economic crash, adding that Fine Gael would borrow and stop putting money towards a rainy-day fund. Asked if the party was engaging in “project fear” to dissuade voters against Sinn Fein, Mr Harris said: “I call it ‘project truth’. It’s telling people what’s being discussed right across European capitals.” Ms McDonald told an RTE interview on Wednesday morning that a Sinn Fein government would also be prepared to start borrowing in the event of an economic downturn. Both Mr Harris and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin, who were partners in the last coalition government in Ireland, have made clear they will not countenance Sinn Fein as a potential partner in the next administration in Dublin. One day after the only three-way debate featuring the leaders of the main parties, Mr Martin accused Sinn Fein of being “dishonest” about how they will fund their manifesto plans. Speaking in Dublin on Wednesday, he said he is anxious to get clarity on the issue. “I think Sinn Fein have been very dishonest, frankly, in terms of the funds, because if you go through their figures, and this is a matter of fact, not opinion, they’re predicting a surplus of a billion in 2026, a billion in 2027. “Even in 2025, they’re talking about a mini budget, which would mean reducing the surplus that we’re anticipating in 2025. “There’s a legislative obligation now on any new government to put 0.8% of GDP to one side, and into the funds. There’s no way you can do that with a surplus of a billion in 2026 or 2027, and we would argue they would not have enough funds next year either to put into the funds.” He added: “It means they have no room to manoeuvre if things go wrong, if there’s headwinds come externally, or there are shocks internationally, Sinn Fein is not allowing any headroom at all in terms of room to respond or to move it.” Ms McDonald accused the other two parties of conspiring to keep Sinn Fein out of government and prevent change in Ireland. She said the two men were now “indistinguishable” from each other as she claimed they were suffering “acute amnesia” in regard to their records in government. On a visit to Naas fire station in Co Kildare, she said: “To listen to them, you’d imagine they had just arrived on the scene and that they were going to come up with all of these solutions. “They have had ample chances, ample opportunity, to make things better, and they have failed, and in between the two of them I make the case that now we ask for our chance, with our plans, with our team, to demonstrate how change can happen, how your community, your family, yourself, can be supported when the government is actually on your side.” Mr Martin’s and Mr Harris’ coalition partner Roderic O’Gorman, the leader of the Greens, issued a warning to the public over a future government without his party. On Wednesday, he said it is looking likely that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will be returned to government – but cautioned they may not want the Greens to continue “fighting hard” on policies. He told reporters: “My sense is certainly the mood music from Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is that they’d like an easier life in the next government – and my concern is they use these small populist parties and right-wing independents.” Mr O’Gorman argued that the Greens could continue to provide stability to government at a time when economic shocks may be around the corner. As the Green leader suggested that relying on independents would be unstable, Mr Martin has also argued that “too much fragmentation would lead to incoherence in government”. Reflecting on Tuesday night’s debate, the Fianna Fail leader said the race remained “too close to call” while Mr Harris said it is “all to play for”. The leaders of Ireland’s three main political parties clashed on housing, healthcare and financial management in the last televised debate before Friday’s General Election. The tetchy debate, which was marked by several interruptions, saw the parties set out their stalls in a broadcast that commentators said did little to move the dial before polling day. After the 2020 general election delivered an inconclusive result, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, two parties forged from opposing sides of Ireland’s Civil War of the 1920s, agreed to set aside almost a century of animosity and share power – with the Greens as a junior partner. From 2016 to 2020, Fianna Fail had supported Fine Gael in power through a confidence-and-supply arrangement from the Opposition benches in the Dail parliament. Sinn Fein won the popular vote in 2020 but a failure to run enough candidates meant it did not secure sufficient seats in the Dail to give it a realistic chance of forming a government.
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AP Top 25: Alabama, Mississippi out of top 10 and Miami, SMU are in; Oregon remains unanimous No. 1 Alabama and Mississippi tumbled out of the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll and Miami and SMU moved in following a chaotic weekend in the SEC. Oregon is No. 1 for the sixth straight week and Ohio State, Texas and Penn State held their places behind the Ducks. The shuffling begins at No. 5, where Notre Dame returned for the first time since Week 2 after beating Army for its ninth straight win. No. 6 Georgia and No. 7 Tennessee each moved up two spots. Miami, SMU and Indiana round out the top 10. Jannik Sinner leads Italy past the Netherlands for its second consecutive Davis Cup title MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Jannik Sinner clinched Italy's second consecutive Davis Cup title and capped his breakthrough season at the top of tennis by beating Tallon Griekspoor 7-6 (2), 6-2 for a 2-0 win over the Netherlands in the final of the team competition in Malaga, Spain. 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At least Ellie, mom and dad are on the same page!”The neglected southern side of Bourke Street Mall is undergoing a transformation with new hotels, shops and “the Mecca of all Meccas” getting closer to completion. The $150 million Melbourne Walk hotel and retail development in the former Walk Arcade building and Mecca’s giant flagship store in the former David Jones building are both on track to open next year. CEO and founder of Mecca Jo Horgan at Mecca’s Sydney boutique. She is opening what she believes will be the biggest beauty store in the world in Bourke Street Mall. Credit: Louise Kennerley Bourke Street Mall, once a prized shopping strip, experienced some lean years after Walk Arcade closed in 2020 and was left empty, and then David Jones shut its menswear store in 2022 . Jo Horgan, founder and chief executive of Mecca , said she believed the Bourke Street Mall Mecca store would be the biggest dedicated beauty store in the world when completed and would become a destination in its own right. “27 years later everything we have done before has culminated in us opening what we hope will be the Mecca of all Meccas,” she said. “I have always been foolishly optimistic and I totally believe in people and consumers and I think if we build it, they will come.” Loading Mecca’s store will span three floors and 4000 square metres stocking more than 200 beauty brands. Advertising firm Clemenger will occupy the floors above Mecca. The store will house a perfumeria dedicated to fragrances, an apothecary wellness hub, a salon for make-up, hair and nail services and ‘Meccaversity’ – a 150-seat educational space for Mecca staff and customers housed in a suspended pod installed on the first floor of the building. Horgan said signing up in the middle of COVID lockdowns to a very complicated project came with its challenges, especially with an “old, culturally significant building”. The site first housed the Coles Book Arcade, a three-storey book store that was once the largest bookstore in the world. “We fell in love with the site, Coles was the largest bookstore in the world, there was a romance in going from the largest bookstore to the largest beauty store,” Horgan said. The former David Jones store is being transformed into a Mecca store on three levels. Credit: Justin McManus However, Mecca’s redevelopment is running behind schedule with a key permit only lodged with Heritage Victoria this month. Horgan said her team got handover in September and “we are now like women possessed to launch it within the timeframe allowed to our build”. “The driving sentiment of the whole team is: how spectacular can we make it, how can we imagine the future of beauty,” she said. “We are so motivated to create an ode to beauty or a Mecca to beauty which will really compel people to make the pilgrimage.” Next door, on a walk through of the Melbourne Walk site, project manager Michael Jansen from builder Hickory said the majority of development had historically always been on the northern side of the Bourke Street Mall. Teck-Lay Tay, executive director of developer Steadfast Capital, and Hayden Djakic, of architecture firm Buchan, inside the Melbourne Walk development. Credit: Simon Schluter “This is the first time that we’re seeing multiple developments, redevelopments, repositioning of assets on the southern side of Bourke Street Mall,” he said. “It’s actually bringing the southern side of the Bourke Street Mall back into play. There’s always been retail over this side, but all the big new shiny objects have always been on the northern side.” Jansen said David Jones moving its menswear department across the road to the southern side of the Bourke Street Mall had opened up the precinct for redevelopment to occur. Melbourne Walk will house two hotels, Hotel Indigo and a Holiday Inn, alongside several stores, including flagship tenant JD Sports. Hayden Djakic, associate at architecture practice Buchan, said the design team wanted to introduce something “quite different” to Melbourne. An artist’s rendering of the Melbourne Walk redevelopment in Bourke Street Mall. “This is really the melting pot of Melbourne, the fine-grain retail itself, where an arcade really celebrates a part of our city and the larger retail of the north amongst Myer, Emporium and David Jones,” he said. “The arcade itself is really a nod to the arcades of old, the likes of the Royal and Block arcades, by taking a modern approach to the classical formation architecture.” The Melbourne Walk team had to remove layers of “pigeon guano” (excrement) from the site before construction could begin. “The building was not occupied from the ground floor up, [since 1980] so we had 10 storeys of pigeons,” Djakic said. Hayden Djakic and Teck-Lay Tay outside the Melbourne Walk site in the Bourke Street Mall. Credit: Simon Schluter Teck-Lay Tay, executive director of Steadfast Capital, said the new developments turned the mall into more of a precinct. “If you look at the next development that’s next door to us [Mecca], David Jones and St Collins Lane, the vision is to have a shopping precinct,” he said. “We invigorate Bourke Street Mall and when the tenants all come in ... it’ll be a very attractive destination for everyone.” Lord mayor Nick Reece said the mall had its ups and downs over Melbourne’s history, but it was now on the up again. “Bourke Street Mall is the most central block in the Hoddle grid, and since the earliest days of Melbourne has been a focus for retail and city life, and so to see it taking on a new lease of life now with these new projects coming online, is a fantastic milestone for Melbourne,” Reece said. Start the day with a summary of the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter . 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