Irish Examiner view: Taoiseach may yet be tempted to call an early general election

Like their counterparts across the EU, the Government is pondering what the elections tell us about voters' mood

Taoiseach Simon Harris, Tánaiste Micheál Martin, and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan will have been broadly satisfied with the election results. It remains to be seen if their renewed confidence will translate into an early general election. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Reverberations, recriminations, and finger-pointing are the usual go-to places for election vanquished while they look on at the jubilant celebrations, flag-waving, and effusive speechifying of the victors.

So it was across Ireland and Europe yesterday after initial ballots were tallied and counted, that the victors crowed, the expectant kept hope, and the vanquished gnashed their teeth.