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10:44 "Getting the vote out" - it's an oldie but goodie in terms of strategy and it seems to have worked for Sinn…

Main points...

• RTÉ exit poll suggest very poor showing for Labour 
• Howlin says voters giving the Government a “smacking” 
• Doherty says party may "the big winners”
• Turnout of close to 58 per cent has been predicted 
• European election results from 10pm Irish time Sunday 
• Byelections results in Dublin West and Longford Westmeath expected later on Saturday

Full Election Results

Tallies show Independents to gain as Labour faces losses

• Politics
• 10:39

Exit poll predicts gains for Sinn Fein, Fianna Fáil and Independents at expense of Government parties

10 things you need to know about the elections

• Politics
• 08:14

More than 2,000 candidates are competing for 949 local council seats across the State

Three people killed in drive-by-shooting in California

• US
• 10:05

Police arrest two after incident at student residence close to University of California

New law will make builders provide social housing

• Social Affairs
• 07:36

Developers will not be able to opt out

• 'We don't want anything fancy - just stability'
• Ten ideas for easing Ireland's housing crisis

Selling Jackie letters would not save All Hallows, says college

• Education
• 01:00

College and Department of Education clash over reasons for closure after 172 years

• Fate of All Hallows mirrors 'collapse in vocations'

Drumm’s wife ‘totally freaked out’ by Anglo crisis

• Financial Services
• 23:00

Trial hears Lorraine Drumm wanted money put in her own name

• Drumm wanted to avoid ‘brutal’ bankruptcy
• Ex-Anglo boss admits 'errors’ in statements

Opinion How plan for directly elected Dublin mayor could be revived

Donald Clarke Queuing brings out national stereotype in us all

Bloom Fringe The younger, edgier cousin of Bloom taking fun to the streets

No picnic 24 hours in the wild and my role in a stranger sandwich

Sport

Donegal’s experience should see them through

• Gaelic Football

Mark Lynch’s run of form will have to continue if Derry are to take home advantage

Shane Lowry kicks on as he shares midway lead with Thomas Bjorn

Stephen Quinn keen to make most of new opportunities with Republic of Ireland

• Saracens can prove doubters wrong and take Toulon
• Atlético Madrid legend Diego Simeone: A despiser of defeat and weak players

Life & Style

No homes to go to

• Homes & Property

The current housing crisis – with its rising house prices, unaffordable rents and increasing homelessness – affects all Irish people. The key problems are closely linked. But can they be solved?

Bloom Fringe taking fun to the streets

The summer fashion edit

• The future of air travel
• The road less travelled: one family ditches the car

Film reviews

Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis

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Columnists

Noel Whelan

Breakdown of public funding of parties offers incomplete picture

Donald Clarke

Don’t take your cue from the Cannes queue

Shane Hegarty

What would Rory McIlroy say to his younger self?

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

‘I’m not sure I like the word torture. . . enhanced interrogation techniques was the phrase we settled on’

Business

Drumm’s wife ‘totally freaked out’ by Anglo crisis

• Financial Services

Trial hears Lorraine Drumm wanted money put in her own name

Drumm forced into admissions about errors, omissions and mis-statements

Gayle Killilea faces questions in Dunne bankruptcy case

• Espion to trawl 30m Quinn documents for Anglo case
• Prime Active’s CEO Peter Lynch steps down during lender talks

Culture

Roddy Doyle: ‘Of the 10 novels I’ve written, only one stands alone’

• Culture
• Arminta Wallace

The Dublin writer is juggling a new book, ‘Brilliant’, a hush-hush new television series, Roy Keane, and the musical of ‘The Commitments’. And the next once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is just around the corner

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Jimmy Gralton: a deported Irishman’s return

• Oh my God, they’ve found refuge in my old student house
• The 25 festivals and music events of the summer

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