VOTING PICKING UP ACROSS GALWAY POLLING STATIONS

Date Published: 31-May-2012

Voting is reported to have picked up at the 320 polling stations across Galway in the EU Fiscal Treaty referendum.

Polling at the 164 stations in Galway West and 156 in Galway East will continue until ten o'clock tonight.

The average turnout across Galway is now twenty three per cent which is still considerably higher than most other areas of the country

Turnout in Dublin was averaging around 19% a short time ago, In Wicklow, Bray and Arklow it was up to 22%.

In Cork voting was slow at between 10 and 14% by mid afternoon.