Voting has ended in the General Election and there appears to have been an increase in the percentage of people who cast their ballots.
Many areas are predicting a big increase on the 67% turnout recorded in in 2007.
The first indications of the likely outcome will come in an RTÉ Exit Poll, the results of which will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland at 8am tomorrow.
There are 165 seats up for grabs - the Ceann Comhairle is returned automatically - and a record 566 candidates trying to fill them.
Voting in one polling station in Salthill in Galway city was disrupted briefly when part of the floor in the assembly hall of St Enda's National School began to buckle.
The polling booths were moved into individual classroom and the voting continued.
The leaders of Fine Gael, Labour and Fianna Fáil all cast their votes this morning.
Enda Kenny voted at St Patrick's National School in Castlebar with his wife and eldest daughter. Mr Kenny urged 'as many people as possible' to vote.
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore voted at Scoil Mhuire in Shankill.
Fianna Fáil's Micheál Martin voted with his wife Mary at the polling station at St Anthony's Boys' School in Ballinlough in Cork.
President Mary McAleese and her husband Dr Martin McAleese cast their votes at St Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park.
All Irish and British citizens over the age of 18 who were on the electoral register were entitled to vote, even if they did not receive a polling card.
Just over 3.2m people were entitled to vote.
Some of the boundaries in the 43 constituencies have changed since 2007.
Limerick East, Limerick West and Kerry North have been abolished and replaced by Limerick City, Limerick and Kerry North-West Limerick.
There have also been some changes to seat numbers in a small number of constituencies.
Counting of votes gets under way at 9am tomorrow morning.
