FF and FG candidates share early lead in by-election

Counting is well underway in the by-election in Carlow-Kilkenny.

Forty-five boxes have been opened so far in the count centre in Cillin Hill in Kilkenny, but it appears to be mostly Carlow boxes opened so far, showing Fianna Fáil’s Bobby Aylward and Fine Gael’s David Fitzgerald neck-and-neck.