Irish Examiner View: Compromise will be vital to government success

Yet today those parties are hand-in-hand, more than halfway across a Rubicon their predecessors imagined uncrossable. This is a seismic moment in this Republic, certainly unprecedented and, in domestic terms at least, unsurpassed.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin, and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, after Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Greens finalised the text of a draft programme for government four months on from the election. Picture: Caroline Quinn/Damien Eagers/Leon Farrell/PA Wire

Coalition deal finalised