In Louth and Meath all seats are filled. Vote counting suspended

Counting in Meath will continue later this morning

Updated at 7:45 am

Counting of local elections will continue this morning after most of the 949 seats are filled.

Recounts have been ordered in some areas, but it is hoped that all council seats will be filled by this evening.

Counting in Meath will resume later this morning after being suspended last night with 11 councillors absent.

In Louth, however, the counting has already ended after lasting all night at County Hall in Dundalk.

The final result was announced after 7.30 am for the Drogheda Urban Local Electoral Area (LEA).

Accordingly, Fine Gael newcomer Ejiro O’Hare Stratton will be elected, while Labour’s Emma Cutlip will lose her seat.

Shortly before 4.30 a.m., Fianna Fáil newcomer Shane McGuinness and Marianne Butler of the Green Party occupied the last two seats in the Dundalk South LEA.

There are no change in representation in the local electoral district of Ardeeafter the result was announced at around 3am, even though Fine Gael newcomer Rachel Kerley had been in the running for the final seat.

In the Dundalk-Carlington-LEAthere are two new city councillors – Independent Ciarán Fisher and Fiona Mhic Conchoille of Sinn Féin, Conor Keelan of Fianna Fáil lost his seat and Edel Corrigan of Sinn Féin is not running for re-election.

There are two new councillors representing Drogheda Rural LEA.

Fine Gael councillor Eileen Tully did not stand for re-election, but the party retained her seat following the election of newcomer Anne-Marie Ford.

Tom Cunningham lost his seat, but fellow party newcomer Eric Donovan retained a seat for Sinn Féin in the LEA.

The results up to yesterday evening are available here.