Gerry Adams says Sinn Féin is ready to go into power, and wants to lead the next government.
The Sinn Féín leader has again promised that his party will not prop up any coalition led by Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael.
In his speech at the end of the party's Ard Fheis in Derry, he said Sinn Féin wanted to end austerity on both sides of the border.
And he told party supporters that Enda Kenny and Joan Burton are running scared of SInn Fein:
