Crunch ‘stable Govt’ coalition talks between FF & FG negotiating teams to take place after ‘positive’ leaders meeting [Video]

HAPPY WITH THE STATUS QUO

“YOU pay your money, you take your choice” go the lyrics to the old Status Quo hit ­Whatever You Want and Irish ­people have been clear in General Election 2024 — what they want is more of the same…but without the Greens.

Opposition parties thumped the coalition over their ­housing record, staffing issues in the health service and headline grabbing overspends on things like the Leinster House bike shed.

But with the Irish economy in flying form, record employment levels, hospital waiting lists going down and the number of homes being built going up — voters have chosen to stick with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.

Almost 43 per cent of the country gave their first preference vote to the two civil …