Micheál Martin: FF could lead 'alternative government' - but it won't include Sinn Féin

Fianna Fáil’s first electoral event of the campaign showed a relaxed Mr Martin in composed form ahead of the three-week sprint.

Micheál Martin has said that there is now a “very real possibility to form an alternative government that wasn’t there in 2016”.

He said however that his statement that he would not go into Government with Sinn Féin was “very credible”.