Fergus Finlay: voters want Sinn Féin to govern... but there are caveats

'As Sunday turned into Monday, FF began to lose seats they should have won. And by the end of the day, only a three-party government was possible. And doubts immediately began to creep in.'

Well, I got it partly wrong last week. Not my fault, of course, Fianna Fáil let me down.

As the count started and the numbers started to come in, there was no doubt that FF would end up in the low forties and SF in the high thirties.