Deadline looms for voters to get names on register in time for general election

Voters have until tomorrow to get their names onto the electoral register.

Although candidates have already begun knocking on doors and canvasing in anticipation of an election early next year, those voting still have limited time to be registered.

Vincent Norton, executive manager with Dublin City Council, said: “Once the draft register is closed off, the local authorities right across the country are to publish the live register by February 15.