Over and out from Kilkenny!

Big thanks to our fabulous student from UL @sgleeson20

Jennifer Murnane O’Connor says she is thrilled to retain her seat, becoming the third Fianna Fáil candidate to be elected here. #GE24 #CWKK

Natasha Newsome Drennan the newly elected Sinn Féin TD for Carlow says it is absolutely amazing to have taken the final seat #GE24 #CWKK

All five seats filled in Carlow-Kilkenny with Fianna Fáil’s Jennifer Murnane O’Connor and Sinn Féin’s Natasha Newsome Drennan taking the final two #GE24 #CWKK

Packing up the count centre here before the 16th and hopefully final count is announced- #GE24 #CWKK

Fianna Fáil’s Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere says his party is now guaranteed to get three seats in this constituency #GE24 #CWKK

Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere’s surplus of 1685 is now being distributed #GE24 #CWKK

Fianna Fáil’s Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere takes the third seat #GE24 #CWKK

The wait goes on for Fianna Fáil’s Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere who didn’t make the quota this time #GE24 #CWKK

The newly elected TD reflects that she was one vote short after the local elections which she says taught her a lot ahead of this campaign #GE24 #CWKK

Over the line for the second seat - Fine Gael’s Catherine Callaghan celebrates #GE24 #CWKK

Catherine Callaghan elected as first female candidate for Fine Gael in Carlow-Kilkenny constituency on count 14 #GE24 #CWKK

Waiting it out-there is still a tight margin between the two remaining Sinn Féin candidates with Áine Gladney Knox just 29 votes behind her party running mate Natasha Newsome Drennan. #GE24 #CWKK

14th count underway after Fine Gael’s David Fitzgerald eliminated, leaving no TD from that party left in the Kilkenny area. Their Carlow candidate Catherine Callaghan is likely to benefit from his transfers. #GE24 #CWKK

Count 13 shouldn’t take long as just 422 votes of the surplus of John McGuinness are now being redistributed to see who will be eliminated next. Just 5 votes separate the two Sinn Féin candidates #GE24 #CWKK

The lie of the land as the 12th count gets underway #GE24 #CWKK

Patricia Stephenson has been eliminated after her party ran for the first time in this constituency- her 6,425 votes are being redistributed #GE24 #CWKK

Celebrating the first seat filled here for John McGuinness FF #GE24 #CWKK