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DEFENDER: Nama chairman Frank Daly, pictured at The National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 book launch last Wednesday, claims the agency is fulfilling its remit. Photo: Tony Gavin

Will Enda meet promise to open Nama 'secret society'?

'THE dog's dinner.' That's what the venture capitalists say they've come for when they roll up in their chauffeur-driven Mercedes S Class limousines to Nama headquarters on Grand Canal Street.

Days of political hegemony well and truly over for FF

So the dust has settled after the General Election -- or at least it has half settled. We have seen the tsunami against Fianna Fail which has swept Ireland. All that remains now is for next Wednesday and the coming into government of the new combination of Fine Gael and Labour and the stunning and startling range of opposition members who will inhabit the seats in Dail Eireann.

Voter betrayal: FG/Labour to ditch pledges on economy

By JODY CORCORAN

The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government is to implement in detail the outgoing Government's four-year austerity plan as approved by the EU-IMF, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

Losers now will be later to win as fallen TDs' entitlements totted up

FORTY-four TDS and ministers may have lost their seats but they leave with a consolation prize of generous pensions and pay-offs.

Gene Kerrigan: Forget the election, change really is afoot

By Gene Kerrigan

In the weeks after a General Election, things usually unfold as though written in a script. And the politicians and the media follow it faithfully. Last week, they encouraged us to fret over tiresome details.

Fine Gael could hold the levers of power for the next 15 years

'There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to institute a new order of things' -- Niccolo Machiavelli

Ross denies FG approached him about doing deal

By LIAM COLLINS

Independent TD Shane Ross has denied "categorically" that he was contacted by Fine Gael's Enda Kenny about forming a new government.

Shane Ross: The deal has been stitched up. The boys will have jobs and old politics will be restored

By Shane Ross

WAGS in Leinster House were at their cynical worst on Friday. "The deal has been stitched up for days," volunteered one senator.

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Coalition talks won't conclude in time for crucial Labour vote

Severe doubts were being cast last night by Fine Gael and Labour Party figures on the prospect of a coalition deal being struck until early next week.

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Lise Hand: Sinn Fein's new Dail sheriff arrives in town with posse of willing deputies

IF you went down to the Dail yesterday, you'd be sure of a big surprise. For yesterday's the day that Grizzly had his picnic. For out on to the sunny plinth strode the newly-elected deputy for Louth, Gerry Adams TD (no doubt looking nervously over his shoulder in case Mary Mitchell O'Connor reappeared).