Piltown Electoral Area: First count in

Pat Dunphy (FG) and Sinn Fein’s Melissa O’Neill are just one vote apart in the Piltown electoral area, and both need are just 140 votes short of the quota of 1,364.

Dunphy won 1,222 votes, with O’Neill on 1,221. Tomas Breathnach (Lab) is on 975 with Eamon Aylward (FF) on 921 - both outgoing councillors.

Results

Aylward Eamon (FF) 921

Breathnach, Tomas (Lab) 975

Burke, John (NP) 576

Byrne, Fintan (FG) 406

Doherty, Fidelis (FG) 885

Dunphy, Pat (FG) 1,222

Fennelly, Brendan (FF) 419

Frisby, Ger (FF) 700

Gaule, Paddy (FG) 556

Long, Cora (FF) 579

Maher, John (FG) 612

O’Neill, Melissa (SF) 1,221

Walsh, Pat (FF) 469