Dáil Day One: Lots of toing and froing on the Dáil dance floor as parties play hard to get

With the amount of stepping in and stepping out again, they could have reinstated the dance floor in the chamber of Leinster House.

As the clerk of the Dáil read out the opening prayer, Richard Boyd Barrett stood at the back of the chamber looking down on the assembly of newly washed and well-worn TDs.

Stuffing his hands in his pockets, he continued to peer down with a baffled expression at a giddy collection of first-time TDs and an even giddier Micheál Martin.