Enda Kenny intervened to try and save the Stormont Assembly.
He wants the SDLP to agree to the DUP's demands to adjourn the power sharing executive for talks – with Sinn Fein opposed to the idea.
The Executive is close to collapse after the murder of Kevin McGuigan in Belfast – the PSNI says the Provisional IRA may have been involved, even though it's supposed to have disbanded.
Sinn Fein's MaryLou McDonald has criticised today's meeting:
