Juno McEnroe: Green Party and Fine Gael tussle over cows and roads as crunchtime looms in coalition talks

The timeline to agree a coalition deal is slipping and there is a bottleneck of political discord building up in negotiations over the next government.

It is becoming ever clearer that Fine Gael and the Greens are at cross purposes over greenhouse gas emission cuts and transport spending, two contentious subjects for their respective parties. Negotiators on both sides are digging in their heels. And all the while days keep mounting without a new government, moving towards four months this weekend since the general election.