Retirements of several veteran councillors does not stop Fine Gael from holding on to nine seats in home county of Taoiseach
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Local and European elections: Taoiseach Simon Harris does lap of honour at count centre as Sunday’s tale of two parties came with an ending neither was expecting
Local election results: At less than 12 per cent the Sinn Féin support collapse will be hard to reverse before a general election
Growing expectations that autumn election now on cards as Sinn Féin support collapses
European election: Independents Michael McNamara and Mick Wallace, Sinn Féin’s Kathleen Funchion, Green Party’s Grace O’Sullivan and second Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael candidates to fight it out for remaining three seats
Local election results: Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Independent candidates have filled the vast majority of seats
FG’s Regina Doherty comes in second but candidates placed third to sixth separated by less than 5,000 votes after first count
Sinn Féin bucks national and gains seats at expense of Fianna Fáil and an Independent
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald concedes ‘it hasn’t been our day’, as she pledges to regroup and examine what went wrong
Labour and Fianna Fáil gain seats, Fine Gael loses two and the ’Lowry Team’ retains five on 40-seat local authority
Civil War parties still vying to be largest in local government as counting continues
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