Missed the General Election count over the weekend? Take a quick look back through some of the key moments.
Saturday, 26 February
0800 The results of the Millward Brown Lansdowne RTÉ Exit Poll suggested heavy losses for Fianna Fáil, and gains for Sinn Féin, Fine Gael and Labour.
0900 Counting begins
1030 Green Party candidate and former TD Paul Gogarty became the first to admit defeat, tweeting: '10% of tallies counted. All in my strong area. Loads of 2, 3, 4, which is comforting, but not enough No. 1s. I concede, with good grace.'
1500 Labour candidate Joan Burton was elected to the Dáil from Dublin West. She was the first deputy returned to Dáil Éireann.
1555 Leo Varadkar became the first Fine Gael candidate to be elected to the 31st Dáil Éireann.
1558 In Dublin North Central, Fianna Fáil's Sean Haughey conceded defeat, ending a 54-year-long family connection with the Dáil.
1619 In Dún Laoghaire, Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore was elected on the first count.
1635 In Dublin South, Independent candidate Shane Ross was elected after the first count with 17,075 votes. He had a surplus of almost 5,000 votes.
1711 In Wexford, Independent Mick Wallace was elected on the first count with 13,329 votes.
1721 In Donegal South West Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty was elected on the first count with 14,262 votes, beginning a very good election for Sinn Féin.
1847 Former junior minister Martin Mansergh was eliminated in Tipperary South.
1848 As the evening went on, the impact of Fianna Fáil's low vote in Dublin became apparent with only one TD - Brian Lenihan - returned.
1855 In Louth, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams was elected with 15,072 votes.
1930 Fianna Fáil Party leader Micheál Martin was elected in Cork South Central on the first count. He topped the poll.
1955 Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny swept to the top of the poll in Mayo and was elected on the first count. Fine Gael looked poised to take four of the constituency's five seats, which is unprecedented.
2000 Labour's Ruairi Quinn said: 'It's too early to start talking about [coalition] options when we don't have all the facts yet. All the cards have not yet been dealt out to all the players. Until we see the cards and the value of those cards we can't really come to conclusions.'
2009 In Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fáil's Barry Andrews, Minister for Children, was excluded after count seven.
2134 In Donegal South West, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan was eliminated after the fourth count.
2157 Speaking on RTÉ Television, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said the incoming government will not leave people 'in the dark'.
2256 Fine Gael was on 36.1%, its best result since November 1982, Labour marginally beat its previous best result, in 1992, to take 19.4% of the first-preference vote. Fianna Fáil had its worst election ever, on 17.4%; Sinn Féin took 9.9%, with a share of just 1.8%; all six Green TDs had lost their seats and Independents and others were at 15.2%.
The high-profile losses continued with Pat Carey and Mary White losing their seats.
2308 In Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent Luke 'Ming' Flanagan was elected on the fourth count.
Sunday, 27 February
0000 Sinn Féin's Dessie Ellis and Labour's John Lyons were elected after the seventh and final count. The election marked Labour's success in the capital.
0034 The overtures between the potential coalition partners continued with Labour's Ruairi Quinn saying there is a need for a 'broad government' of Fine Gael and Labour.
0100 More good news for Sinn Féin after they won a seat in Meath West with Peadar Tóibín elected on the fifth count.
0151 In Dublin Central, the constituency of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Féin was elected on the eighth count.
By early morning the counting had confirmed the earlier predictions that Fine Gael would be the largest party by some way, Labour and Sinn Féin would have their best-ever election, Fianna Fáil would have its worst result and the Greens would be wiped out as a party in the Dáil.
0357 In Waterford, Labour's Ciara Conway was elected - the constituency's first female TD in 50 years.
0630 In Dublin South Central, Joan Collins of People Before
Profit was elected.
0900/1000 Counting resumed.
1118 Fine Gael Director of Elections Phil Hogan predicted that the party was on course for around 77 seats when all constituencies declared.
1300 On RTÉ's This Week Eamon Gilmore said that if Fine Gael wanted to form a 'national government' Labour would be willing to play its part. He said he was confident Labout could negotiate a programme for government.
1457 In Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit's Richard Boyd Barrett took a final seat, eliminating Fianna Fáil Minister Mary Hanafin.
1600 24 constituencies were left without a Fianna Fáil TD, including Waterford, Tipperary, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Meath and Kerry.
1800 In Galway East and Wicklow not one seat has been filled, while counts were continuing in Laois Offaly and Galway West.
1801 26 votes separated Fine Gael candidate Liam Quinn and Fianna Fail's John Moloney in Laois-Offaly.
1805 David Davin-Power reported that Fine Gael said they would start work on forming a coalition on Monday.
1835 The count in Wicklow was adjourned until Monday at 9am.
