Micheál Martin 'would like to be Taoiseach again' and rules out government with Sinn Féin

The Tanaiste expects the election to 'happen within the next seven months now or eight months'

Tanaiste Micheal Martin met with activist Ifrah Ahmed and the Irish Ambassador to Kenya Caitríona Ingolsby in Nairobi on Friday.

Micheál Martin has said he would like to be Taoiseach again and insisted his only focus now is the next general election.

“What’s in my plan is a run in the next general election, for our party to win as many seats as possible and I would like to be Taoiseach again in that respect,” he said on Friday. “I think that is a legitimate aspiration, that’s my focus.”