Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has accused Fianna Fáil of "game playing" in relation to the formation of a Government.

Acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny has thrown down the gauntlet to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, calling on him to “act responsibly” in putting a government together.

In retrospect, it probably wasn’t the best idea to slide around school in my socks before today’s paper, but in my defence the madness has well and truly set in by now.

HAVING watched the PAC on television questioning Mr Cardiff, and his analogy of the helmsman on the stormy seas, was he the pilot on the Marie Celeste, frankly, to lose €3.6bn on double entry bookkeeping and be informed on four separate occasions of this error?