Jim O’Callaghan TD: hosted meeting in his home with Leo Varadkar and with Enda Kenny’s policy adviser and Micheál Martin’s chief adviser. Photograph: Jason Clarke Photography FG and FF agree minority government the only show in town
  • Harry McGee
  • April 11, 2016, 01:00

Analysis: Call by Independent Alliance for separate meetings spurs parties to talk

Protesters wearing masks of Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin. The difficulties of bringing the two parties together are underrated. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Diarmaid Ferriter: Can Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil put national interest first?
  • Diarmaid Ferriter
  • April 9, 2016, 06:00

The challenge is to provide a contemporary response to the points addressed by Blythe in 1927 and Kelly in the 1970s

Mood music failed to hit right note for Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Fianna Fáil chief Micheál Martin. Photograph Barbara Lindberg. How best laid plains for FG-FF pact went up in smoke
  • Harry McGee
  • April 9, 2016, 01:00

Fine Gael soundings on deal with FF all very well – but they were talking to wrong people

From left: Independent TDs Boxer Moran Seán Canney, Shane Ross and Micheal Fitzmaurice pictured at government buildings. The suggestion that some of the Independents could be part of a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil dominated government is creative. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times Noel Whelan: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil coalition only viable option
  • Noel Whelan
  • April 8, 2016, 07:01

Suggestion that some Independents could be part of FG-FF dominated government is creative

Former tánaiste and Labour leader Dick Spring predicted yesterday “that it’s going to get very ugly”. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times Miriam Lord: Will nobody think of the National Interest?
  • Miriam Lord
  • April 8, 2016, 01:01

‘Make them stop!’: little National Interest rocks from side to side as its parents bicker

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin with acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Kenny’s partnership offer is the first time that such an approach has been made between the two big parties. File photograph: Aidan Crawley Pat Leahy: Fianna Fáil has many reasons to reject Enda Kenny’s offer
  • Pat Leahy
  • April 8, 2016, 01:00

Fine Gael offer if accepted, would make for major realignment of political landscape

Some senior Fine Gael figures have joked in recent days that they never envisaged being pulled so far to the left Settling issue of water charges vital to any FG-FF deal
  • Fiach Kelly
  • April 8, 2016, 01:00

Analysis: Big parties have moved position during talks with Independents

Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin have only three options: a minority government, some form of coalition or partnership or another election. Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin face three unappetising choices
  • Harry McGee
  • April 7, 2016, 10:54

Analysis: There are limited options left now as political talks move to the end game

Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin arrives at Government Buildings. The failure of the Dáil for a second time to elect a new taoiseach has at least brought some clarity. Photograph: Eric Luke Minority government is almost certain for 32nd Dáil
  • Stephen Collins
  • April 7, 2016, 02:28

A new approach to politics will be needed for the new government to survive – a tall order

Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Custom House Quay, Dublin. File photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Fintan O’Toole: Fine Gael feigns surprise at the books it cooked
  • Fintan O'Toole
  • April 5, 2016, 01:00

The party knew long before it drew up its manifesto that the new government would face fiscal issues

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Fianna Fáil is caught between a rock and a very hard place
  • Fiach Kelly
  • April 2, 2016, 01:01

Analysis: Party must support a Fine Gael-led government or trigger an election

‘We are in some kind of parallel universe where everyone wants to be in government, just not this time around.’ File photograph: Aidan Crawley Cliff Taylor: Why the reluctance to govern in the world’s fastest-growing economy?
  • Cliff Taylor
  • April 2, 2016, 01:00

Instead of grasping their opportunity, the big parties have collectively lost confidence

Independent Senator Averil Power and Leo Varadkar: the Minister has endorsed Power in the forthcoming TCD Seanad elections 2016. Photograph: Conor McCabe Miriam Lord: Seanad university seats and a different independence
  • Miriam Lord
  • April 2, 2016, 01:00

Tension for Labour, old dreams for Fine Gael and a sweet tweet from Lynn Boylan

Alex White, Joan Burton and Brendan Howlin in Citywest: if Labour wants to “make amends” to voters, how does it do that from opposition? Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Pat Leahy: Labour gambles on staying out of government
  • Pat Leahy
  • April 2, 2016, 01:00

Party risks being marginalised as Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin will dominate opposition

‘It has been more than a month since the country voted in the general election but the pathway to government formation looks as uncertain as it did when the results first came in.’ File photograph: Aidan Crawley Government formation remains in a state of uncertainty
  • Harry McGee
  • March 28, 2016, 01:00

Analysis: Fine Gael TDs fear Independents do not fully grasp the reality of power

‘We are at risk here of slipping back into an old Irish habit - thinking that setting up a new government department, or agency, or some other kind of quango is the key step to fixing something.’ File photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times Cliff Taylor: Setting up new quangos is not the solution
  • Cliff Taylor
  • March 25, 2016, 10:40

Recent history is littered with institutional shake-ups, most of which have achieved very little

No matter how it is sliced, the option of Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael plus Independents and assorted others looks inherently vulnerable. Photgraph: Niall Carson/PA Fine Gael and Independents building castles in the air
  • Arthur Beesley
  • March 25, 2016, 01:00

Whatever makeshift arrangement emerges will be in a precarious position

Micheál Martin: For the moment, he hasn’t really said what his party’s role might be in bringing about a new administration. Photograph: Alan Betson. Miriam Lord: Time drags as Enda tries out a bit of woodwork
  • Miriam Lord
  • March 24, 2016, 01:00

Word went around that the Taoiseach was going to unveil a ‘round table’

Taoiseach Enda Kenny: ‘Yesterday, he was reduced to the role of mere actor surrounded by his acting ministers.’ Photograph: Eric Luke Miriam Lord: An acting Taoiseach results in no action
  • Miriam Lord
  • March 23, 2016, 01:00

Dáil suffers through a fruitless day of speechifying and ‘procedural wrangling’

No government will survive without a thought-out strategy on what to do with Irish Water and water charges. Photograph: Caroline Quinn/AFP/Getty Images The eight deal-makers or deal-breakers in talks on government
  • Harry McGee
  • March 22, 2016, 01:00

These are the issues that will matter in any government arrangement

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