Laois Local Election count getting underway

Local Election counting is getting underway in the Count Centre in Kea Lew Business Park in Portlaoise. 

Count staff have arrived and boxes of votes have just been delivered from Scoil Christ Rí in Portlaoise where the European and Local Election papers were separated.

Staff are currently counting postal votes before they open the boxes which were delivered from Scoil Christ Rí.

Candidates and their supporters are beginning to arrive at the centre.