Micheál Martin was elected Taoiseach this week at the second time of asking. First he, the Dáil and the wider public had to endure the spectacle of attempts to elect a Taoiseach ending in chaos. 

But was it self-inflicted or if not whose fault was it and does it auger for a new type of politics in the coming years?

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