"Are you coming up to Dublin for the declaration, Micheal?" Micheal in Cork:

You do have to hand it to Simon Harris. He warned us rock bottom was not yet hit. 🤣🤣

The decision of Simon Harris to direct FG councillors to oppose the nomination of all independent candidates for the Presidency & Oireachtas members to not sign Maria Steen’s nomination papers was not merely an exercise in political hubris but also subconsciously acknowledged

I’m sick to death of hearing this same inane wittering about “returning to core values,” from @FineGael for the last decade. You have no core values left to return to. What matters to you is milking an aged & dwindling 18-20% support for all the pensions you can get #Aras25

Fascinating watching many clinging to the fact that it might not be the lowest Presidential election turnout in history. When you combine it with the spoiled ballots and Gavin’s vote, almost two thirds of the electorate stayed home, spoiled or voted for a candidate no longer in

The left will celebrate, as they should, they will hold the Presidency for another 7 years. But easily the greatest thing about spoiled the vote is that you can sense the frustration from establishment figures that they have to acknowledge the people they wanted disenfranchised.

The sheer number of spoiled votes across the country. 🥹 Serious signs of life. You have to love the absolute Irishness of it.

100% Tally: Dublin Central Connolly: 74% Humphreys: 20% Gavin: 6% Spoilt votes just under 17%

Helen McEntee describing spoiling one's vote as "not using your vote correctly" is stunning. They still don't get it - they're really going to try 'business as usual'...again. #Aras25

TALLY: Dublin Mid West (70% in) Connolly: 71.6% Humphreys: 18.8% Gavin 9.6% Spoilt votes around 21%

This election has been a defeat for democracy and a defeat for politics with so many spoilt votes and so many staying at home.

Maria Steen should have been allowed into the election, full stop.

They won’t but if they’d any decency Micheál Martin and Simon Harris should resign over this. #Aras25

Apart from the obvious winner, it’s a good day for County Councillors and their right to nominate candidates for the presidency. Party leaders would do well to interfere as little as possible with this prerogative, in light of today’s results.

Covering Dublin Midwest for Presidential election. Early tallies here, unsurprisingly, have Catherine Connolly out in front. But the big story is the number of spoiled votes. Currently sitting in second.

Derp

And spoiled votes outnumbering Connolly and Humphreys. Very strong spoiled vote in Dublin North West. Tally people telling me they’ve never seen anything like it

RTE "shocked" by spoiled votes. That's because RTE doesn't exist in reality.

After weeks of gaslighting about it being anti-democratic and would not register on Election Day, it turns out that spoiling your vote was a powerful and effective way to send a message to the political establishment that they turned this election into a farce. Go figure. #Aras25