All eyes on the Greens as counting of programme for government votes begins for three parties

The Green Party's 3,000 members will need to pass the deal with a two-thirds majority in order to send Éamon Ryan's party into coalition with the Civil War parties. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Counting of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil postal ballots begins this morning as the country prepares to find out if a government will be formed.