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03rd Mar 2016

Almost 6 days after polls closed, here’s the final result of the General Election

Tony Cuddihy

What’s next?

Following the end of the count in Longford-Westmeath, we finally have the result of the General Election.

Willie Penrose secured speaking rights in the Dáil for his party as he became Labour’s seventh T.D., while Peter Burke of Fine Gael got in at the expense of Sinn Féin Paul Hogan.

Now for the small matter of seeing what the next government will look like, with Amnesty Ireland’s Colm O’Gorman just one of a number of people predicting that we’ll be going back to the polls within a year.

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