TALLIES Galway East: FG candidates to battle for third seat

With more than 110 of the 138 boxes in Galway East tallied, it looks as if Independent TD Sean Canney will easily top the poll and is set to be elected on the second count.

It is likely at this stage that sitting FF TD Anne Rabbitte will retain her seat and it is touch and go between the two FG candidates Cllr Pete Roche and sitting TD Ciaran Cannon who are battling it out for the third seat.

Roche has performed particularly well but with some of Cannon’s area still to be tallied, it appears that the sitting TD might just edge it.

But one thing is certain, there is an Independent seat, a FF seat and a Fine Gael seat, while Sinn Fein’s Louis O’Hara who, so far has received 16% of the vote, might be starved of transfers when it comes to the deciding counts.

However, he has performed exceptionally well and said that he was delighted with the vote he received and has not ruled out the possibility of being a general election contender in the future.