Apart from her party not performing as she would have wanted in the election, McDonald has experienced personal challenges this year.
A run for the presidency is not on the horizon for McDonald, she tells The Journal.
The term time for the rotating Taoiseach is yet to be decided.
Hayes, a TD elected to Dublin Bay South, was suspended with immediate effect from the Social Democrats parliamentary party this week.
Who will be the third wheel of government is yet to be decided.
Sources say Fine Gael will push for a rotating Taoiseach deal, while Labour are viewed as a preferred option, but option still open for independents.
From TheJournal.ie
McDonald says FF and FG can’t be allowed ‘jive’ their way back into Government Buildings.
Independents could be the kingmakers after the next election and O’Connell says she will back a FG/FF led government.
The Sinn Féin leader was in Bray Co Wicklow yesterday where she visited homeless and youth mental health charities.
The bike shed, rising rents, disability services and the cost of childcare were all raised with the Tánaiste and Jim O’Callaghan.
From TheJournal.ie
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had been eyeing up Labour as possible future partners in government, if the numbers added up after the election.
From TheJournal.ie
Party sources give their take on how they think it is all going.
