The report of the count from Dublin North Central inadvertently appeared on two pages of yesterday's results supplement. As a result, the report from Dublin North was not included in the supplement. Here is the story of the count as it should have appeared.
Michael Kennedy topped the poll to claim the first of two Fianna Fáil seats in what proved to be a protracted and contentious count.
With almost 20 per cent of first-preference votes, Kennedy was just 60 short of the quota and he was elected on the third count. But the real drama began late on Friday night after the seventh count when, in an attempt to stay in the hunt for the final seat, Labour's Brendan Ryan objected to his elimination by 11 votes.
Clare Daly of the Socialist Party had polled 5,900 votes to Ryan's 5,889 but Ryan believed that if he got through, he would pick up enough of Daly's transfers to challenge Fine Gael's Dr James Reilly for the fourth seat. A recount began on Saturday and suspect votes were examined by returning officer Peter Whelan. The revised count saw Ryan, brother of outgoing Labour TD Seán, overtake Daly by two votes.
Counting was adjourned to allow Daly's representatives time to reach the count centre; after the revised result was announced, Daly's election agent called for a second recount. However, this was denied on the basis that a full recount had already taken place.
When counting resumed, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent won a fourth term after he was elected on the eighth count. Darragh O'Brien followed on the ninth count when his fellow Fianna Fáil candidate, former Dublin football goalkeeper John O'Leary, was eliminated.
On the 10th count Fine Gael regained the seat lost by Nora Owen in 2002, as Reilly's strong showing of 14 per cent of first-preference votes helped him win last seat ahead of Ryan. Sargent was the only returning TD here as Fianna Fáil's Jim Glennon and GV Wright and Labour's Seán Ryan had decided not to run again.