Catherine Connolly votes in the Scoil Niocláis Naofa, the Claddagh National School in Galway city, Co Galway, on Friday. Photograph: Dan Dennison

There were growing indications of a historic low turnout in the presidential election.

The final voter turnout for polling stations across the country was below 40 per cent in many areas but an official figure will not be known until Saturday.

By teatime, some centres were reporting fewer people had voted at that stage than had done in the last presidential election in 2018.

There was no marked surge in the late evening before

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