GALWAY WEST SECOND FULL RECOUNT TO GET UNDERWAY AT 4PM

Date Published: 01-Mar-2011

A second full recount of all the ballot papers in the Galway West constituency will get underway this afternoon. [1/3]

It’s three days since initial counting began at the count centre in Leisureland and still the final make up of the 31st Dáil is not known.

Independent Catherine Connolly was granted the second recount in the early hours of today after only 17 votes seperated her and Fine Gael’s Sean Kyne.

The second full recount will begin at 4 o’clock this afternoon.

Derry Buckley, Returning Officer for the Galway East constituency, also saw a recount over the weekend.

He says there can be some errors, but there often minimal.