The ASTI has decided to stop its current ballot for industrial action in relation to threatened redundancies.

Latest: ASTI delegates spent the day considering a series of one day stoppages in protest over pay levels for new entrants

The results of a ballot by secondary school teachers involved in a long running dispute will be known later today.

Non-consultant hospital doctors have postponed a planned strike ballot over an accommodation allowance, following an invitation to talks.

Latest: Siptu has authorised a strike ballot among its members on public service pay.

The vast majority of members in the Garda Representative Association have said they are willing to take industrial action over pay.

SIPTU will begin a ballot of its members at Dublin Bus later today.

Unions representing drivers at Dublin Bus are to ballot their members on strike action in an ongoing dispute over pay.

The first votes in the election for the next president and deputy president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) were cast last night.

The Irish National Teachers Organisation is to ballot its members on industrial action.

Local authority members who supply services for Irish Water are balloting for industrial action.

The Education Minister has said she is “deeply disappointed” at the decision of the country's largest secondary teachers union to reject the latest junior cycle proposals.

The country's largest second-level teachers union has voted to reject the latest junior cycle proposals.

The results of a ballot by the main teaching unions on the proposed reform of the junior cycle are due to be released tomorrow.

Secondary school teachers will ballot next month on Junior Cycle Reform.

There have been reports of large queues outside polling stations across the country.

Cancer nurses at Cork University Hospital (CUH) have begun balloting on proposals designed to end a dispute over staffing levels on the oncology ward.

The election in Darlington where a Ukip candidate was mistakenly left off ballot papers delivered to a polling station will continue as normal, the constituency’s acting returning officer has said.

Deirdre Clune of Cork’s Barry political dynasty fought off party young gun Simon Harris to clinch a second seat for Fine Gael in a marathon Ireland South election count.

He was ridiculed as the baby-faced candidate and dubbed the Confirmation Boy because of the photograph on his election posters.

"I missed you all," Mary Hanafin gushed to reporters in the manner of a faded film star who had just glimpsed the limelight once more thanks to a cameo role in a B movie.

The pounding inflicted on Labour by an angry electorate was of such shock and awe proportions it even forced senior figures out of the bunker of victimhood they have locked themselves in for the past two years.

The latest images from count centres around the country.

Olympic hero Kenny Egan is expected to eventually be elected despite being in a fight with a small group of candidates for one of the final seats in Clondalkin, an electoral area that has seen Sinn Féin support surge to a massive one in every three voters.

Do not adjust your timepiece: Michael Collins could top the poll in Clonakilty.

Fianna Fáil candidates Mary Hanafin and Kate Feeney are set to both gain seats at the first count later today - despite a high-profile falling out over the ex-minister’s decision to run.

From Kilnamanagh to Carrigaline and almost all points in between, all roads lead to Clonakilty today where results in two Cork County Council divisions will be decided.

The Labour Party is bracing itself for a weekend of tough questions as counting gets under way for the local and European elections, which are expected to mark a major breakthrough for Sinn Féin and a shift towards anti-austerity candidates.

ASK anyone from a rival party what’s the secret of Sinn Féin’s rise in popularity and they all say the same thing: They’ve never been in Government.

Exit polls from the Netherlands suggest anti-EU sentiment might be levelling off as decidedly pro-EU parties came out on top, but the message from Britain appears to be very different with Ukip clear winners.

A late surge saw turnout nationally in the local and European parliament elections approach an estimated 57%, one percentage below the 2009 figure and 9% less than the 68% recorded in the last general election.

FOR decades, Ireland had a pro-EU cartel at the centre of party politics.

Fianna Fáil European candidate for Dublin Mary Fitzpatrick is facing complaints from the Data Protection Commissioner after voters received pre-recorded ‘robocalls’ from her on the eve of voting.

A series of opinion polls published in the weeks leading up to yesterday’s elections were a source of further bad news for the government parties, whose support levels had already slumped significantly in the years after the 2011 General Elections.

You reported that Michael Noonan, Minister for Finance, said that support for opposition parties would result in new taxes and instability.

THE dishevelled-looking homeless man, slumping under the weight of a filthy sleeping bag draped around his shoulders, was quietly ushered away from the Eamon Gilmore campaign stunt he had stumbled across.

Sinn Féin has confirmed that one of its election candidates in Clare has resigned from the party after he admitted making anti-Traveller remarks on Facebook three years ago.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has refused to discuss his role in the resignation of former garda commissioner Martin Callinan and instead said he will address the issue before a special inquiry.

Ministers responded to criticism that they have failed to get a grip on the homelessness crisis by announcing €46m in special accommodation projects.

The Government has been accused of "crocodile tears" over its pre-election concern for people losing medical cards who — the opposition said — they have ignored for two years.

One of the women behind the phenomenal 10-year local campaign to stop a 100,000-tonne incinerator being built at Cork Harbour is hoping to win a seat in tomorrow’s county council elections.

A local election candidate has called for an inquiry into the manner in which the ombudsman’s office handled his complaint against Limerick County Council.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has sent voters a warning that any support for opposition parties will result in new taxes and instability for the country.

It will be interesting to see if the reaction that independents are receiving on the doorsteps will translate into votes for independents this Friday.