Fine Gael's Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy has officially lost her seat following the 9th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency.
The distribution of Barry Cowen's surplus of 591 wasn't enough to get Corcoran-Kennedy ahead of John Leahy, meaning the end of the road...
The town of Portarlington has a TD for the first time in over 90 years following the election of independent candidate Dr Cathal Berry in Kildare South.
Berry, who is a former army ranger and member of the Defence Forces,...
Fianna Fail's Barry Cowen has been re-elected to the Dail on the 8th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency following the distribution of the votes of his Offaly running mate Peter Ormond.
Cowen finished with 12,162 votes after initially polling 8,677...
Kildare South is playing out as a bit of a nightmare for Fianna Fáil.
Instead of securing a gain which they had targeted they are now struggling to win a single seat of the three up for grabs.
It's gone right...
He was tipped by many to win a seat before the election - but Peter Ormand is out of the race in Laois-Offaly.
The Fianna Fail Cllr has been eliminated following the seventh count that saw the distribution of Ken...
Brian Stanley, who topped the poll on the first count, is still the only person in the Laois-Offaly constituency to be elected after six counts.
Noel O'Rourke, John Daly, Stephen Tynan and Pauline Flanagan have all been eliminated while the...
Sinn Fein's Patricia Ryan has been elected on the sixth count in the Kildare South constituency.
She topped the poll last night but had to wait a further five counts to reach the quota.
She is the first to be elected...
Portlaoise-based Labour candidate Noel Tuohy has been eliminated after the 5th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency with the elimination of Stephen Tynan's votes.
Cllr Tuohy, who entered the race at a late stage as Labour faced the prospect of not...
Outgoing Fianna Fail TD is back in third place in Kildare South following the elimination of her running mate Suzanne Doyle in the 5th count.
Having been in fifth place in the three-seat constituency when voting finished last night, she...
There are certain words that are only used when there's an election on - quotas, tallies, surplus and counts.
As Day 2 of 2020 General Election gets underway, we do our best to explain what you need to know.
Quotas and...
Fianna Fail candidates benefited from over 1,300 of Pauline Flanagan's transfers on the fourth count in the Laois-Offaly constituency.
But there still has been nobody elected and it now moves onto the distribution of the votes of Stephen Tynan (People...
A Sinn Fein surge, they say. Scratch that. This was a tsunami. A tsunami of support that swept away everything in its political path.
Laois, Offaly and Kildare weren’t to miss out on the action, the drama, the hysterical historical...
Every so often an election throws up a result that history will remember in simple terms.
Jack Lynch’s landslide success with Fianna Fáil in 1977; Labour’s Spring Tide in 1992; the utter collapse of Fianna Fáil in 2011.
2020 is about...
After the wind and rain from Storm Ciara - it is now going to get very, very cold.
Met Eireann has issued a yellow snow/ice warning for Ireland for Monday and Tuesday.
Colder air from Canada began to spread across the...
The Laois senior footballers Division 2 Round 3 clash against Cavan was postponed on Sunday as Storm Ciara left the MW Hire O'Moore Park pitch unplayable.
The CCC will decide later today when that game is going to be played...
This February the Irish Heart Foundation is calling on the people of Laois to go Red in support of the women of Laois
The Irish Heart Foundation launched its Go Red for Women campaign, in support of women in Laois...
Below are the recent deaths in Laois.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a anam.
Dr Hugh (Hugo) Gath
Elm Lawn, Portlaoise, Laois/Kilcormac, Offaly
Hugo, Portlaoise, Kilcormac, Co. Offaly, Dublin and Waterford, 8th February 2020 (following a brief illness) at Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise....
Counting has concluded for the night in the Kildare South constituency - with a three-way battle taking place for the last seat.
Outgoing Fianna Fail TD Fiona O'Loughlin is currently in fifth in the three-seater with Sinn Fein's Patricia Ryan...
Day 1 of General Election 2020 has come to an end - and what a roller-coaster it has been.
The story across the country was one of the same - an astonishing Sinn Fein surge.
That was replicated in Laois-Offaly as...
Counting in the Laois-Offaly constituency has been postponed until Monday morning with the elimination of Fianna Fail's Pauline Flanagan and no further elections.
The distribution of Noel O'Rourke (Renua) and John Daly (Irish National Party) votes weren't enough to get...
Independent Carol Nolan - a former member of the Sinn Fein party - has strengthened her grip on the fifth seat in the Laois-Offaly constituency following the transfer of Brian Stanley's surplus in the second count.
Nolan, who parted terms...
The big day is finally here. After weeks (and years in some cases) of planning, campaigning, canvassing and finally voting - we can now turn our attentions to tallying, counting and announcements.
Counting commences today in the 2020 General Elections...
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There have been big election results before - but this one is like never before.
The people wanted change and they voted accordingly and emphatically.
Sinn Fein's biggest day and best ever electoral...
Laois-Offaly Fianna Fail candidate Barry Cowen has labelled the huge surge in Sinn Fein support as a 'costly punt'.
Mr Cowen, who is well placed to regain his seat in the constituency, made the comments shortly after Sinn Fein's Brian...
Sinn Fein's Patricia Ryan is on course for election in the Kildare South constituency.
Voters from Portarlington, Killenard and Ballybrittas took part in this constituency after they were moved here in 2016.
The first count results are as follows:
Cathal Berry (IND)...
Brian Stanley has become the first person from the Laois-Offaly constituency to be elected to the 33rd Dail.
The Sinn Fein candidate has topped the poll with a massive 16,654 votes.
This is 5,083 over the quota. The second count will...
Sinn Fein are also on course to top the poll in the Kildare South constituency with the Monasterevin candidate Patricia Ryan set to take in almost 10,000 first preference votes.
Ryan was the candidate that hit the headlines recently for...
Pippa Hackett recorded The Green Party's best ever vote in Laois-Offaly as first count results were published this evening - but it will not be enough to see her win a seat.
She got 3,494 votes and around 4.9% which...
"You could go on holidays and still get elected for Sinn Féin," a shrewd political observer said to me during the week.
It turns out to be absolutely true.
Sinn Féin are going to romp home in style in Laois-Offaly and...
As in keeping with the huge increase in support for Sinn Féin nationally, Laois’s Brian Stanley is on course to top the poll in the Laois-Offaly constituency and be elected on the first count.
He is set to bring in...
