It's all go, if a bit slow.
As efforts to cobble together an administration rumble along, and with no full, formal sit-down having yet been held with the Regional Independents, Independent Ireland enter the fray.
Will they beat the 22 January deadline, or is after St Brigid's Day more likely?
And don't forget the Seanad elections. The Greens - down to a solitary TD - are watching nervously.
With a file having been sent to the DPP, 14 years after the final report from Moriarty there may be tribunal trouble on the horizon for Michael Lowry.
Which is arguably not a great look for new generation political avatar, Simon Harris.
Joe Mag Raollaigh is joined by Mary Regan and Juliette Gash.
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