The election so far, in quotes

Who said what, mid-way through today's election count.

With Irish politics taking a seismic shift and the two government parties likely to fill less than half the seats in the Dáil, here is how the impact of that played out:

:: Paul Murphy of the Anti Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit was out early predicting the drama: "I think we have seen a political earthquake - the end of the two and half party system."