Earlier this week, the highly experienced political strategist and pundit Fergus Finlay wrote that he was “absolutely convinced that the issue of accountability, and how its absence runs the risk of corrupting our State, should be a central issue in the general election campaign”.

Housing, homelessness and public services are expected to dominate today's Green Party Convention.

With Taoiseach Enda Kenny under increasing pressure to radically shake up the Fine Gael frontbench and Labour looking for a new leader, Conor Ryan charts the fall of the Coalition from the dizzy heights of its election success three years ago.