Catherine Connolly appears to be on course to become the next President of Ireland
There are many hours to go before all the votes are counted
There are two count centres in Cork at Nemo Rangers and Mallow GAA Complex where the sorting and counting of votes from Cork's five constituencies has been ongoing since 9am
From the boxes already open this morning the other story emerging from this Election is the sheer volume of spoiled votes across the country.
Those have a series of different motivations and slogans - quite a few people have written Maria Steen's name, Enoch Burke for President has also been a recurrent vote.
Then some say traitors, some are anti migration, and some commenting on the alleged sexual assault of a child last week.
In some early boxes, the number of spoiled votes is significantly higher than the vote for Heather Humphreys.
