Daniel McConnell: Priorities laid out for government formation in early talks

Green leader Eamon Ryan: in the middle of talks with Ireland's Civil War parties on coalition.

With formal talks between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens due to commence on Thursday, attention is shifting to what can they agree upon to do in government over the next four to five years.

Even at this initial stage the main broad strokes of the likely programme for government are clear and the main priorities will include: