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IRISH Green Party officials remained tight-lipped yesterday over rumours of a possible “grand coalition” with the two main centre-right parties to keep Sinn Fein out of government.
Meetings took place between party leaders in a bid to form a coalition after Sinn Fein topped the polls in Saturday’s seismic general election.
Party president Mary Lou McDonald hailed a “revolution in the ballot box” and insisted that Ireland’s electorate had voted to put her party, which only stood 42 candidates, into government.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH