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Don’t worry, I’m not going to write another 1000 words on liveblogging. I just wanted to tell you some of the things that have come up while we’ve been running our Moratorium Day, Voting Day and marathon Count Day liveblogs here. Firstly, we’ve put Blacknight’s machinery under unwarranted stresses. They’ve been fantastically helpful and Cian [...]

The most compelling race in the country is over with the victory of Alan Kelly in the race for the final seat. Kelly took the seat in a final head to head with Sinnot by 10,000 votes after Toireasa Ferris was eliminated as ever you had it first on the liveblog. The MEPs so far [...]

Update: via Declan Ganley is to step down from leading Libertas and bow out of public life according to reports at the count in Castlebar. He will no lead the Lisbon II campaign either. From the live blog, Ganley’s wheelie bin recount loses him 3,000 votes. New NW counts (original in brackets): Gallagher: 82643 (82643) [...]

It looks like Alan Kelly is ahead by 8K from Sinnot after she pulled ahead of Ferris on Kelly’s surplus by 688 votes. Figures suggest around 75,000 votes from Ferris to decide the final seat between Kelly and Sinnot Colm Burke is not happy with the way he was treated see end of post. Up [...]

Final from East: Alyward +4369 103605, Childers +12,865 102220, Phelan 6114 79,8960 Alyward and Childers elected without reaching quota McGuinness already on Quota

At present the Government have a three-vote majority in the Dáil with the support of Jackie Healy-Rae, Michael Lowry and Joe Behan. However, when Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher is elected to Europe his vote will immediately no longer count in Dáil Eireann bringing the majority down to two. Healy-Rae will never vote against the Government [...]

At 5.30 my phone buzzes, ‘Joe elected, we are done here’. Now that is hardcore. Eoin Ryan, like the terminator, menaces that he will be back probably to Dublin South East and signalling the exit of Chris Andrews. Mairead McGuinness is the only other MEP to be elected thus far outside of Dublin and counting [...]

Late night election thread – dive in to the comments: Early doors and we have some classic election fallout – Green party defeated council candidate Niall O Brolchain invites an offer from Fine Gael and Labour across the floor for a change of Government. Even if he isnt speaking out of line he is asking [...]

Figures for South 2nd count: Boyle now on 16 250 ELIMINATED Burke 54 617 Crowley 119 25 Ferris 65 861 Kelly (alan) 66 121 Kelly (sean) 94 430 O KEeffe 16 896 Sinnot 62 057 Performance by Sinnot kicks her into pole position once counting resumes tomorrow for that final seat – counting suspended for [...]

As talked about here. Video of Maurice Ahern after losing seat.

The Ahern Machine has ground to a shuddering halt. De Udder Brudder was desperately hoping to find 13 votes in a bunch of about 600 non-tranferables. Fianna Fáil would have hoped that the last candidate to be eliminated, their own Seaghan Kearney would have given Ahern enough to shove him over the line. However, it [...]

1st Count Quota: 123, 815 Projcection: Gallagher, Harkin and Higgins (Ganley has a hope only if he pulls 10k more transfers than Harkin from O Keeffe / McLoughlan and the rag-bag of independents.) Gallagher – 82 643 Ganley – 70 628 Harkin – 84 813 Higgins – 80 093 Higgins, John (ind) – 3 030 [...]

Nice figures from Elections Ireland: Projection: Crowley and Kelly (Sean) to take the top two seats with Kelly Ferris and Sinnott fightin for last with Alan Kelly in pole position due to SF being transfer repellant. Candidate Party 1st Pref Share Quota Count Status Seat * Brian Crowley 118,258 23.74% 0.95 0 awaiting update Sean [...]

Quota: 101, 658 1st Count: Byrne, 18 956 De Burca, 19 086 De Rossa, 83 471 HIggins, 50, 510 Mary Lou 47, 928 McKenna, 17 521 Mitchell 96, 715 Ryan 55, 346 Simons, 13, 514 Sweeney 3,583 2nd Count (elim of Simons and Sweeney):

Via Elections Ireland: Our projection: 1 FG, 1 Lab, 1 FF Candidate Party 1st Pref Share Quota Count Status Seat * Mairead McGuinness2 110,366 25.71% 1.03 1 Made Quota 1 Nessa Childers 78,338 18.25% 0.73 0 awaiting update * Liam Aylward 74,666 17.39% 0.70 0 awaiting update John Paul Phelan 61,851 14.41% 0.58 0 awaiting [...]