BREAKING: Third TD elected in Carlow-Kilkenny

Fianna Fáil General Election candidate Peter 'Chap' Cleere has taken the third seat in Carlow-Kilkenny after the fifteenth count. The Kilkenny-based candidate was less than 100 votes short of the quota after the fourteenth count but then received an additional 1,772 votes from the surplus of Catherine Callaghan (Fine Gael). Three candidates are now in the battle for the remaining two seats: Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fáil), Áine Gladney Knox (Sinn Féin) and Natasha Newsome Drennan (Sinn Féin).

CLICK HERE FOR OUR GENERAL ELECTION BLOG Here's the state of the poll after the fifteenth count: More to follow...



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