I write following the abandonment of the Dáil until tomorrow morning. What was supposed to be a relatively straightforward matter of Government formation following a predictable election result has turned into near-two months of interminable negotiations that seem to have been dominated in recent weeks by questions of who is going to be which minister.
Those two months have today been followed by what should also have been the fairly simple matter of electing the next Taoiseach – Micheál Martin. So certain was it in fact that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen posted an overly-hasty congratulations on X, incorrectly assuming it to be all but done and dusted in a timely and orderly fashion.
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