Varadkar declines FF coalition mandate at party gathering

Fine Gael leader, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, is prepared to “let Micheál Martin sweat” and did not seek a mandate to continue talks with Fianna Fáil from his party.

The party’’s TDs gathered yesterday ahead of the second day’’s sitting of the 33rd Dáil and heard from Mr Varadkar and Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe about talks with the Green Party and Fianna Fáil earlier in the week.