President Higgins 'could call joint session to break political deadlock'

President Michael D Higgins may intervene if talks to form a new Government remain in stalemate, Irish Examiner Political Editor Daniel McConnell has said.

President Higgins 'could call joint session to break political deadlock'

Update (3.11pm): President Michael D Higgins may intervene if talks to form a new Government remain in stalemate, Irish Examiner Political Editor Daniel McConnell has said.

“Michael D Higgins, as President, has the prerogative to call a joint session of the Oireachtas and come down and basically lecture the two big boys, in terms of Enda and Micheál, to get their backsides into a room and talk together and form a Government,” he said.

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