Labour Party

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Outside of coalition talks, other big story of the week was undoubtedly Eoin Hayes’s suspension from Social Democrats

With government formation talks set to intensify before Christmas, focus now on who will provide safety in numbers for next coalition

Martin and Harris got on each other’s nerves during the election campaign, but they now need to put their differences aside

There is a strong expectation that Labour leader Ivana Bacik will recommend that the party does not proceed with negotiations about joining a coalition government

Following initial engagement with other political parties, there had been speculation that the newly-enlarged party would leave government formation talks

Each party has its own distinct challenge facing into the post-election period. Sinn Féin’s is about how to transform itself from government-in-waiting to radical opposition

Michael Lowry expects to meet Chambers and McEntee to discuss ‘parameters’ of engagement in government formation talks

Labour and Regional Independent group to decide on pursuing negotiations with two outgoing ruling parties

Fianna Fáil particularly keen on enticing Labour into a coalition rather than Independents, while main two negotiating parties have differing views on issues including VAT reform, new departments and overhaul of the Department of Public Expenditure

It’s a cliffhanger moment for the Irish screen industry. Will producers here be boosted by the kind of levy on streamers now commonly found across the EU?

Minister for Finance says it will likely be at least January before a new coalition is put together

Jim O’Callaghan talks up Independents option while Bacik expected to speak separately with Martin and Harris this week

Voting patterns in this trio reveal why some parties exceeded expectations and others fell short of hitting targets

Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan says his party and Fine Gael can form a stable government with support of ‘reliable’ Independents

Development comes after Labour and Social Democrats shun ‘common negotiating platform’ in advance of government-formation talks

How the veteran Fianna Fáil leader dragged his party into the 21st century and won his place as taoiseach

In Dublin’s north inner city support for the veteran criminal known as the Monk shows how ‘disaffected’ locals are

TDs bringing experience from all walks of life make up the incoming Dáil, including the first born in the 21st century and a man elected the year Ronald Reagan entered the White House

From manifesto-stitching to partnership, and from Independents’ day to confidence-and-supply: people at the heart of previous talks recall how the deals were done

A new coalition will not be formed before Christmas, but with the options clear a deal should be done by mid-January