Squatter Enda Kenny still playing coy on coalition deal with Fianna Fáil

Patience with the slow-moving political talks is wearing thin, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Fine Gael leader and acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been so long at this talking lark with Independent TDs, he is about to become eligible for squatters’ rights in Government Buildings.

Now that the Easter celebrations are completed, there is no major impediment to these talks, but we remain as far away from a Government as we were a month ago, when the electorate rejected Kenny’s bid for re-election.