Mary Lou McDonald met with Eamon Ryan today. Image: Rollingnews.ie Mary Lou McDonald met with Eamon Ryan today. Image: Rollingnews.ie Updated 1 hour agoSpeaking after the meeting, she said:
“It is an important part of the jigsaw, but it is really the spending side and the investment side that I am critical of other parties,” said Ryan. An alternative government could see smaller parties like the Social Democrats go into a confidence-and-supply arrangement with two of the bigger parties but leaders Catherine Murphy and Roisín Shortall have all but ruled it out.
Solidarity-People Before Profit has a number of areas where its policy overlaps with Sinn Féin, leaving it likely that its TDs could vote for Mary Lou McDonald as Taoiseach when the Dáil resumes next week, according to Richard Boyd Barrett. It’s understood the party will be speaking to the likes of the Green Party, Labour, the Social Democrats and Solidarity-People Before Profit from today. Even with the support of all these parties, together they wouldn’t reach the 81 seats required for a majority.
Sounds positive. We could have double green caucus of deep green nationalists and grass green environmentalists.
I didn't vote SF to join up with that prick.
Call a fresh election
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