Counts underway in three remaining constituencies

Counts are underway in all three constituencies where seats remain to be filled.

In Wicklow a full recount is expected to be ordered after concerns about the numbers of votes separating Fianna Fáil's Dick Roche from his party colleague Pat Fitzgerald.

In Laois-Offaly, counting restarted this morning at 10.30am, after a half hour delay. It is a five-seater constituency, and just one TD has so far been elected.

In Galway West, another five seater, three seats remain empty.

So far Fine Gael has won 70 seats, Labour is on 36, Fianna Fáil has 18, Sinn Féin and Independents are on 13 apiece while two seats have gone to both the People Before Profit group and the Socialist Party.