About a third of the registered voters across Tipperary’s North and South constituencies have cast their ballot.
Various pooling stations across the county have reported turnout figures of 30- to -40 percent at around 5pm
The CBS primary in Nenagh has marked off 31-percent, Cashel is on 29-point-3, and Urlingford is 30-percent.
St Mary’s in Clonmel had reached 37-and-a-half, Scoil Ailbe (pron: AL-vah) in thurles was at 36-percent and one booth at the Presentation onvent in Carrick-on-suir has topped 42-percent.
St Michael’s Girls National School in Tipp Town had recorded 30.9-percent by five o’clock
Presiding Officer there Denis Holland says they are expecting their biggest crowds in the next two or three hours.
He’s advising voters to bring photo-I-D like a drivers license or passport – and while many people haven’t yet recieved their polling cards he says that not a big problem locally
