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Government formation talks between the major parties will continue despite the coronavirus pandemic.

JUST how does a ‘caretaker’ Taoiseach get away with shutting down the country while away on foreign soil, without Cabinet approval and with no mandate to govern?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that extra legislation may be needed to strengthen employment and social laws to protect those who have to self-isolate in response to Covid-19.

A vote had been scheduled for today, but with no change in the levels of support for any candidate, it was deemed to be unnecessary.

Both candidates in the Labour leadership contest have said the party has "lost the trust" of voters and "failed to present clear and coherent solutions" to the issues that most affect Irish society.

The Green Party has insisted that providing for added public transport should take priority over the delivery of major new motorways including the M20 between Cork and Limerick in talks with Fine Gael.

Today is Super Tuesday in America’s presidential election process.

A second Dáil vote for Taoiseach is set to go ahead on Thursday as parties continue to meet and debate policies in an attempt to form a government.

"After considerable reflection, I have taken the decision not to allow my name to go forward," Ged Nash announced this morning.

'As Sunday turned into Monday, FF began to lose seats they should have won. And by the end of the day, only a three-party government was possible. And doubts immediately began to creep in.'

Alan Kelly is to put his name forward for the role of leader of the Labour party.

A vote for Ceann Comhairle first order of business in 33rd Dáil, says Cianan Brennan.

Fianna Fáil calls for Fine Gael to support it in government from the opposition benches have been dismissed as “arrogant” and “unworkable”.

In a move that was not unexpected, Mr Howlin said that he would be instigating a leadership contest with immediate effect.

The Social Democrats believe that a left-leaning minority government is "unlikely" to be formed.

Mr Doherty said he welcomed the fact that Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has apparently softened his stance towards coalition with Sinn Féin

Count centres across the country have reopened this morning as Day 2 of the count gets underway.

The count in Wexford has completed with the election of Independent Verona Murphy on the eleventh count.

With almost 100 of the 160 seats filled in the 33rd Dáil, Fianna Fáil looks set to emerge as the biggest party with more than 41 seats.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has been elected in Wexford after reaching the quota on the eighth count.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin conceded it was a “bad day” for his party.

A sideways glance at Election 2020.

A new opinion poll as listed Mary Lou McDonald as the "most effective communicator" among party leaders during the election campaign to date.

That construction is to be funded by €16bn in cash held outside the annual spending budget in order to stay inside fiscal space guidelines.

Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar are set to go head-to-head on Prime Time on Tuesday.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that the general election campaign has been “very difficult” for his party and that public opinion has “reset against us”.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin, too, called for a progressive alliance of the left and has called for such parties to agree a “common agenda” if they are in government together.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has launched a series of stinging attacks on the handling by Fine Gael of the Brexit negotiations, saying that a claim that it was the only party that could have guided Ireland through amounts to “supreme arrogance”.

There is great arrogance in Fine Gael claiming success in the Brexit negotiations, the Labour party leader Brendan Howlin has said.

There is a lingering suspicion that everybody in Thursday’s TV leaders debate was administered a high dose of adrenaline as they entered the studio. All were out of the blocks as if they’d been pumped up on something, and none more so than co-presenter Ivan Yates.