Election results: Barry Cowen expected to be elected alongside Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan as Midlands-North-West counting continues
Aontú
Luke Ming Flanagan leads the pack in Castlebar as battle for three Ireland South seats comes down to four candidates
Tom McDonnell is a joint founder of Éire Saor in Newbridge, Co Kildare
Andrews, Doherty, Boylan, Ó Ríordáin elected as MEPs in Dublin; John Moran becomes country’s first directly elected mayor in Limerick
Sinn Féin doubles numbers on local authority as Fianna Fáil loses three seats and Fine Gael drops one
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael lose seats but still take 20 between them as Aontú makes a breakthrough in the county
Verona Murphy’s Wexford Independent Alliance makes a splash and has five councillors elected
Local election results: Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Independent candidates have filled the vast majority of seats
Helen Ogbu elected to Galway City Council for Labour Party, becoming the first black woman to win a seat there
Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Independent candidates have filled the vast majority of the seats declared so far
Dublin environmentalist Brian Bolger has been unearthing decades-old campaign posters from the sand around Dublin’s protected Bull Island
Peader Tóibín says candidates will be ‘competitive’ in 24 local electoral areas
Not everyone is promising Aontú a first preference but the European candidate is changing the minds of some traditional voters
Local elections: More women starting to make a mark in a political system ultimately ‘designed primarily for men by men’
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