"Talks are ongoing with the DUP and we continue to work towards a confidence and supply arrangement", the source said, adding that the parties had shared objectives on issues like Brexit, fighting terrorism and spreading prosperity.
Some speculate that Sinn Fein would prefer to wait to see whether May will face a leadership challenge or if new British elections will be called, rather than to come to any power-sharing agreement with the DUP now, given that it perceives the party to have the upper hand. "We want to get back to an executive that has all the parties around the table to collectively take decisions", she said.
Ireland's new taoiseach, openly gay Leo Varadkar, revealed in a press conference with Theresa May, that he has pressed the DUP leader, Arlene Foster, on her party's blocking of same-sex marriage.
This is another extraordinary failure on the part of the prime minister, heaped on top of the extraordinary failure of the general election itself.
The Taoiseach is perhaps the only person she has dealt with in a year who has made her job slightly less horrendous.
The long-running talks soured yesterday - ten days after the Prime Minister claimed a deal was done - when the DUP warned her it "can't be taken for granted".
A team of experienced lawyers is planning to apply for a judicial review of the Tory-DUP minority government deal once it is officially confirmed by United Kingdom government, the Guardian newspaper reports.
The DUP is demanding a guarantee that pensions will continue to rise to meet a surge in inflation and there will be no tax rises.
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"The people of Northern Ireland need devolved government working in the best interests of the whole community".
"I am looking forward to travelling to Downing Street today to meet the British Prime Minister, Theresa May", he said.
After four terror attacks and a devastating fire that have darkened the national mood, protesters are also planning a "Day of Rage" in the streets against May's Conservatives that will converge outside parliament.
May could be forced to resign if she loses the vote, just as the country embarks on highly sensitive negotiations for Britain's withdrawal from the EU.
Varadkar's comments were more interesting because he focused on a DUP-Tory confidence and supply deal as it might affect the Good Friday Agreement - another issue where vague risks to peace are being lazily inferred.
"If I'd written to him officially as minister of finance or something like that around recognition laws here in Northern Ireland, I have no recollection of it".
He told MPs: "The electorate sent a very clear message to politicians about austerity at the election, and I think that it's very clear since that election that people have to listen to what the people said".
The intervention comes after Brexit secretary David Davis was seen to have been dealt a blow in the opening day of withdrawal negotiations with the European Union, after it was agreed trade deal talks would not begin until October at the earliest.
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