The Green Party leader has said a range of options should be considered for the make up of the next Government.

A Fine Gael - Fianna Fail partnership is still being seen as a strong possibility, despite both sides rejecting the notion during the campaign.

Green Party Deputy leader Catherine Martin took their first seat of the election last night, and leader Eamon Ryan is hoping to make a return to the Dail after losing out in 2011.

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He feels we shouldn't jump to the conclusion that a coalition of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is the only option: “Let’s throw a few ideas out there, lets throw a few possibilities out there, why not say Labour, Fianna Fail, Sinn Féin plus others Coalition.

“Because that may bring us back to the realisation that it is only just Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that could do numbers and that might put the necessary pressure on them to form a Government if that is what they want to do.”