€1m Ireland South recount begins - but may now be completed in one third of timeCount officials revealed today that extra staff has meant the count could be resolved, all going well, by next Sunday - two weeks earlier than thought. The recheck uncovered just five ballot anomalies - to the net benefit of a single vote for Ms Ni Riada. Senator O'Sullivan had been 522 votes ahead of Ms Ní Riada after the seventeenth count. By the seventeenth count, Ms Clune had a lead of just under 1,900 votes over her nearest rival. Ms Clune critically outperformed her two rivals, having trailed both by almost 18,000 votes before the sixteenth count.

Source: Irish Independent June 04, 2019 10:41 UTC