How it started ...
It's a wrap from Dublin South-West, with the big news of a Labour gain here at the expense of the Greens.
The constituency returned familiar faces as well as a fresher one.
Four of the five outgoing TDs were re-elected - Sinn Féin's Seán Crowe, Fine Gael's Colm Brophy, Fianna Fáil's John Lahart, and People Before Profit-Solidarity's Paul Murphy.
Mr Crowe topped the poll, but his vote was well down on his 2020 figure - it should be noted though that this constituency underwent significant boundary changes in the interim - trading around 10,000 votes in the Templeogue/Terenure for the same amount in Tallaght/Fettercairn.
For Fine Gael, this was a solid performance, with a huge chunk of Monica Barnes' votes helping running mate Mr Brophy over the line.
For Fianna Fáil, there were good signs here too. Tallaght-based Teresa Costello, in her first General Election outing, stayed in the race until the latter stages.
At one point in the count, the party was talking up the chances of taking two seats here.
Ultimately, that did not happen, with the more established Mr Lahart taking the sole seat for the party.
The new face among the crop is Labour's Ciarán Ahern.
He polled reasonably well in 2020 but built on that performance this weekend.
The party leader, Ivana Bacik, made sure she was present to see Mr Ahern celebrate his win at the count centre tonight.
"Cautiously optimistic," was how Mr Murphy said he was feeling early on Saturday morning.
He won the last seat, without reaching the quota, and is heading back to the Dáil.
As for the Greens, this was a poor showing for the outgoing TD, Francis Noel Duffy, picking up just 1,931 first preference votes - things so different four years ago.
In truth though, his loss was well flagged and predicted even before the votes spilled out here on Saturday morning.
A Labour gain, a Green loss and some familiar faces being sent from here to Leinster House.
How it ended ...
