Make your mind up time for the Independents

Former tánaiste and Progressive Democrats leader Mary Harney once famously pondered: “Your worst day in government is better than your best day in opposition.”

This is the choice that Independent TDs will have to make this weekend after Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil finally concluded drawn-out talks on the formation of a minority government yesterday.

Attention will now turn to Independent TDs and how many of them will join Enda Kenny’s administration and who will not and is therefore prepared to go into the badlands of opposition.