What is behind rapprochement between Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill?

FF-FG ambivalence makes prospect of meaningful regional autonomy possible

Two main parties seek to entice smaller parties to help them achieve Dáil majority

Fianna Fáil leader to continue efforts to form a coalition with Fine Gael

Criticism of party’s performance on social media raised at parliamentary party meeting

The Republic has perhaps one more electoral cycle to normalise Mary Lou McDonald’s party

We know Sinn Féin is able to compromise when it serves its strategic interests

Mary Lou McDonald made series of claims about measure in RTÉ leaders’ debate

Inside Politics: Howlin wants to build ‘progressive alliance’ before coalition talks

Mary Lou McDonald claimed in debate that zero corporate tax paid on profits of €2.5bn

Party would need all but one of its candidates elected if it is to be dominant force in coalition

Leo Varadkar will have to put up an impressive performance in the TV debates if he is to have any chance of returning as Taoiseach

This week saw high-spirited dispatches from Gerry Adams and another twist in swing-gate

Unity vote would be a mistake due to divided peoples and Brexit impasse, says Tánaiste

Some hard thinking and hard choices await Mary Lou McDonald

Analysis: FG and FF have been spinning furiously but there’s no spinning out of this

Party sources say it is after the ‘angry vote’, raising questions about longer-term strategy

Late surge in support tapped into segment of Irish electorate prepared to rebel regularly

The party needs to show it is willing to give a greater measure of respect to unionists

Mayo TD believes the public saw Eighth Amendment as a hugely personal issue

A number of politicians have declined invitations to a US embassy event in protest over Trump administration policies

‘When the country went 70-30 in one way, the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party went 80-20 in the opposite direction’

Former Ulster Farmers Union president elected as Sinn Féin backs Fine Gael candidate

Sinn Féin also backs Fine Gael candidate ‘because of Micheál Martin’s attacks’

Fianna Fáil’s conservative stance on referendum question risks alienating younger voters

A constant at Gerry Adams’ side, McDonald was widely accepted as successor from 2016

Inside Politics: Fianna Fáil’s failure to secure any political bounce is a worry for the party

Donegal TD said he was happy as party’s finance spokesman and treasurer

Bradley’s decision to come to Belfast so quickly after her appointment demonstrates a seriousness of purpose

Boyd Barrett manages to out-shout Mary Lou as he ratchets it up on homelessness

US president inadvertently rescues Taoiseach from embarrassing political faux pas

Sinn Féin leader defends Mary Lou McDonald’s Dáil sit-in and calls for political reform

Pat the Cope Gallagher and Thomas Byrne chosen to contest sprawling four-seater