United left would have won more concessions

I’M puzzled as to why the main parties of the left, Labour and SF, didn’t call a meeting of all left-of-centre TDs after the election to agree on a bottom line for negotiations.

FF could not have achieved a majority without some Labour, SF, Green and left independent TDs. If they had co-operated, the left could have achieved at least some degree of progress on:

Ending the two-tier health service.