Election 2024: Independents could offer an alternative route to coalition deal

In recent months, and indeed the June local and European elections, the narrative of an independent wave was powerful and, largely, true.

Polling well and popular across the country, Independents may now hold the keys to a government made up of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael if those parties decide that a third leg of a stool is too expensive.

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