Sinn Féin has said it is "open for business" with a team ready to engage in talks to restore the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland.
Mary Lou McDonald said talks have been suspended for the summer but Sinn Féin is willing to continue with negotiations.
Sinn Féin's leader in Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill was also in Dublin today to attend the party's Ard Comhairle.
She said she has contacted all the other party leaders to say they have a team ready to "crunch" the issues.
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Ms O'Neill said the relatively peaceful marching season bodes well to create the right atmosphere for the talks.
However she said there were deliberate attempts at dividing societies with rogue bonfires and effigies which have been disgraceful and should not be tolerated.
She said she is disappointed all unionist parties have not come out to condemn those activities.
Ms O'Neill also said the deal between the Democratic Unionists and the Conservatives at Westminster has complicated things in the North.
She said: "Look at the deal which they have done with the Tories, they have given them a blank cheque in relation to Brexit and we all know the devastating implications there are going to be for the island of Ireland".
Ms O'Neill added that part of the reason there is a political crisis is because the DUP has been pandered to for the last ten years.
She said a deal with the DUP is in their own self interests to keep Mrs May in power.
