RTÉ News reports from the count centre in the Royal Dublin Society. The count is dragging on in the Dublin South-East constituency between John Gormley of the Green Party and Michael McDowell of the Progressive Democrats.

John Gormley feels that it is time to use modern technology and use computerised voting. John Gormley went on to win the seat and become the Green Party's second elected TD (Teachta Dála) or member of parliament.

A RTÉ News report on the long time it was taking to get a result at the count for Dublin South East during the 1997 general election.

Broadcast 09 June 1997

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