LIVE: Catherine Connolly maintaining lead as Carlow/Kilkenny count is over halfway complete
The count is continuing at Kilkenny College
Catherine Connolly is maintaining a commanding lead in Carlow/Kilkenny as around 60% of the ballots have now been tallied in the presidential election constituency.
The Independent candidate from Galway is the number one choice on 61.9% (11,921) of valid ballots tallied so far with Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys coming in at 30.5% (5,817) followed by the withdrawn Fianna Fáil contender Jim Gavin on 7.6% (1,464).
Spoiled votes have made up a significant portion of around 12.6% (2,787) of all ballots to this stage.
The boxes accounted for make up the vote from all of Carlow with most of South Kilkenny also now included.
Keep up to date with all the developments from the count centre on Kilkenny Live throughout the day.
More to follow…