RTÉ Donegal

TEAM WORK It was a great team effort to bring the best election coverage from Donegal. We did our best to bring listeners the most up to date coverage. Great to be part of it. Thanks to all my colleagues, especially @RTERnaG @colmanos @rtenews @rte @RTERnaG #GE2024

THE final countdown @rtenews #GE2024

“This man is from the same parish as me” Donegal’s most experienced TD Pat the Cope from An Clochán Liath congratulates the newest TD Charles Ward from Arranmore

Count 14 Thomas Pringle gets 2,147 transfers goes to 9513 ahead of Charlie McConalogue on 9172- but will he still be ahead after next count when vote of Nikki Bradley (FG) is distributed? her vote should put Pat the Cope over the quota. 6179 votes to be distributed on Count 15

Count 13 in Donegal - coming soon and could decide where the last seat here goes

Charlie McConalogue tells RTE’s TV election programme he is confident he will take a second seat for Fianna Fáil in Donegal

After Count 13 - Thomas Pringle trails Charlie McConalogue by 1,663- he will need a big share of the vote Sinn Féin’s Noel Jordan in the next count- he is expected to do well but may not do well enough- it may be 2 seats for FF in Donegal with Pat the Cope set to be elected

Four candidates- three seats left - Pat the Cope- bottom left and Charles Ward above him look set for one each- Thomas Pringle or Charlie McConalogue (bottom right)?

After Count 12 Charles Ward of the 💯 Redress Party now ahead of Charlie McConnell FF- by more than a thousand votes. McConalogue is 1976 votes ahead of Thomas Pringle- next count elimination of John McNulty FG - he has 3434 votes

Mary T Sweeney, Aintú candidate in Donegal on phone to her party leader Peadar Toibín seeking advice on whether she should ask of rechecjlk or recount of last count where she was last placed candidate just 3 votes behind John McNulty FG

Count 12 will be distribution of the votes of Mary T Sweeney- expected to out Ward ahead of McConalogue and help Pat the Cope on his way

The race for the last seat In Donegal tightens further- - -After Count 11 Charlie McConalogue 65 votes ahead of Charles Ward and 2074 votes ahead of Thomas Pringle and we shouldn’t forget Pat Cope ahead of all three edging towards a quota

Thomas Pringle thinks he will take the last seat in Donegal ahead of Charlie McConalogue but expects it will the closest shave of his political life with only 20 or 30 votes in it

Thomas Pringle joins the rally in Donegal- he’s currently in 6th in this 5 seater but is hoping transfers will once again get him back to the Dáil

@colmanos Charlie McConalogue now 602 votes ahead of Charles Ward, 💯 Redress and 2,291 votes ahead of Thomas Pringle- there are 5 candidates below them with 17k plus votes - transfers of those votes will decide where the 2 final seats in Donegal go

@colmanos Thomas Pringle got 354 transfers, a bit less than a quarter of combined Green/PBP vote, Charles Ward got 236, Charlie McConalogue 132 and there 121 non transferable

@RTEDonegal Count 10 Donegal imminent- none will be elected but it will be interesting to see if Thomas Pringle will get a boost- the eliminated candidates PBP & Green close to him ideologically but based in the other end of the county- which will triumph Geography or Ideology?