Turnout picking up in northeast

Louth

Just before 12pm, it seems that voting has picked up in most parts of the northeast

The average in Co Louth is now averaging at around 7%, compared to around 2.5% at 8.30am.

At one polling station in the Drogheda Urban Local Electoral Area, turnout as high as 11.6%.

Monaghan

In Monaghan, polling booths in the Clones LEA are running between 6% and 10% with an average overall of around 8%.

As of around 11.30am, turnout in the Monaghan LEA is sitting at about 7%, and between 6% and 8% in Castleblayney LEA.

Cavan

After a slow start in the early hours of polling, voters have begun to turnout in numbers across Co Cavan.

The east of the county, Mullagh and Virginia (Ballyjamesduff MD), both considered commuter area, appeared the busiest of stations throughout the county, but others have now caught up, with Ballyjamesduff (St Clare's NS) standing at 7% now overall.

In Mullahoran turnout is about 10%, and in Bruskey, also in the Ballyjamesduff area, as of 11am, voting percentage it a little over 4%.

In Stradone (Bailieborough-Cootehill), polling numbers sit around 6% total, and the same in Cavan Town (Cavan-Belturbet MD), where turnout was at around 6% at 10.30am.

Meath

Turnout in Meath is varying from LEA to LEA. After a slow start of between 1 and 2.3% before 9am, but has now increased to between 5% in a Donacarney polling station to 7.7% in Dunboyne.

Trim 5.86% -7 .5% across two polling stations

Bettystown 7.37%; Donacarney 5%; Navan 5.5%; Kells 7%; Ashbourne 6%.