Vote counting in local election to get under way later
The vote counting process is to begin later today in Ireland’s local election.
A day after voters headed to the polls in three highly anticipated elections, the ballot boxes will be opened at 9am before counting gets under way later on Saturday.
Irish people voted to elect a swathe of new councillors as well as picking candidates to send to the European Parliament and, for the first time, some voters will be directly electing a mayor to represent them locally.
The ballot papers for the local government elections will be sorted and counted first, before the papers in the European and Limerick mayoral elections are counted on Sunday and Monday respectively.
