Counting in the European and local elections is set to resume around the country.
There's just over 77 of the counties 949 council seats left to be filled.
Results over the weekend showed a surge in support for the Green Party.
Fine Gael had mixed fortunes but failed to make the gains Taoiseach Leo Varadkar had hoped for.
Reacting to the results, he said he's not ruling out a general election.
But he clarified last night he'll not be going to the polls in the next few weeks.
Speaking at the RDS, he said the timing of the election is not necessarily his call.
"In the context of a current Dáil in a minority Government, where we only have a quarter of the seats in the Dáil, that's just the reality of this.
"Of course anybody in government would prefer to be in a government with a stable majority - we don't have that".
Green Party candidate Ciaran Cuffe at the European elections count at the RDS | Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ieThe first of Dublin's new MEPs is expected to be elected later today.
Counting in the Dublin European elections was suspended at midnight last night.
Count staff got through seven rounds of counting last night, before the announcement that it was ending at midnight.
By that stage, none of the candidates had reached the quota of 72,790.
The closest is the Greens Ciarán Cuffe, who managed 63,849 votes, around 4% less than exit polls were predicting.
He's followed by Fine Gael's Frances Fitzgerald on 59,067.
Rounding out the top five for the four seater constituency: Fianna Fáil's Barry Andrews on 51,420, Independents4Change Clare Daly on 42,305 and Sinn Féin's Lynn Boylan with 39,387 votes.
The first seven candidates to be eliminated were Tony Bosco Lowth, Mark Mullan, Aisling McNiffe, Hermann Kelly, Eamon Murphy, Eilish Ryan and Rita Harrold.
Counting resumes at 10.00am with count 8 which is the distribution of Rita Harrold's transfers.
But it could be a late one again as the man in front Ciarán Cuffe is still 8,000 votes off the quota.
