Fianna Fáil General Election candidate Peter 'Chap' Cleere has taken the third seat in Carlow-Kilkenny after the fifteenth count. - READ MORE HERE
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).
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