Newly elected TD for Carlow-Kilkenny, Peter 'Chap' Cleere caught up with Kilkenny Live reporter Christopher Dunne after claiming the third seat in the constituency.
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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