FF look to pick up two of remaining 19 seats

The Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil Mary Hanafin has become the latest high profile casualty of the General Election.

Just 19 seats now remain to be filled as counts continue in five constituencies.

After a fight to the bitter end, Mary Hanafin was beaten for the final seat in Dun Laoghaire by Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before Profit / United Left Alliance.

It brings an end to the Hanafin dynasty in the Dáil, means Fianna Fáil will only have one seat in the capital, and no woman will be elected for the party.

The party now stands at 17, but may pick up two more.

Labour now has 35 seats with a gain today in Carlow/Kilkenny and a seat in Galway West.

Fine Gael has 65 seats with up to a dozen more up for grabs in the remaining counts in Wicklow, Carlow/Kilkenny, Laois/Offaly and Galway East and West.

Sinn Féin has 13 seats and may get another, while Independents and others are on 17 and may pick up three more.

All eyes are now on Enda Kenny and when he will pick up the phone and ring Eamon Gilmore and begin the process of trying to form a coalition.