Fine Gael has conceded the election and expects Catherine Connolly to receive about 64 per cent of the vote.
Agriculture Minister and the party's Director of Elections, Martin Heydon has congratulated her
"That will be the result this evening - Catherine Connolly will be the 10th Uachtarán na hÉireann and I want to congratulate her on that. I wish her very well in the time ahead, and she will have our full support, because the success of her presidency is Ireland's success"
