The Electoral Commission is calling on people to register to vote ahead of the local and European elections next month.
Monday 20 May is the last possible date for people to register to vote in time for the elections on 7 June.
People can register to vote on checktheregister.ie or by filling in the relevant form at their local authority.
First-time voters often do not know they have to register and so may miss the deadline or turn up to vote only to be turned away.
In the period from the beginning of this year to 22 February, a total of 184,605 people either registered to vote or updated their details.
That was more people that registered or updated their details in the previous 15 months.
In 2023, a total of 133,978 people registered to vote or updated their details.
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With less than a week to go until the deadline for the next election, the Electoral Commission is urging people not to leave their registration until the last minute.
In the last 48 hours before the deadline for voting in the March referendums, 37,000 people registered to vote.
That influx put pressure on local authorities to process all those applications on time for those people to be able to vote.
The local and European elections this year will also be held on the day that Leaving Cert students will be sitting the Maths Paper 1 and Geography exams.
For those first time voters, the Electoral Commission is encouraging them to take a five-minute study break to register to vote.
A spokesperson for the Electoral Commission said: "The Leaving Cert is important for their future lives, but so is the future direction of the country they live in."
