Sunday 25 May 2014 12.56 Counts for the European Parliament elections began at 9am.
An RTÉ exit poll showed that Independents and Others lead the way in terms of national support for the European elections, with support standing at 27%.
The poll showed support for both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil was at 22%.
Sinn Féin support is estimated at 17%, while Labour has seen a collapse in support to 6%.
Green Party support is estimated at 6% and the Socialist Party and the People Before Profit Alliance have a combined support of 3%.
The opinion poll surveyed 3,000 people and has a 2% margin of error.
The poll for the Dublin constituency put Sinn Féin's Lynn Boylan in pole position to win a seat with 24% support, reflective of Sinn Féin support nationally.
The remaining two seats in the constituency appear to be between Fine Gael's Brian Hayes, former Green Party TD Eamon Ryan, Independent Nessa Childers and Mary Fitzpatrick of Fianna Fáil.
Labour's Emer Costello, a sitting MEP, was predicted to have support of 8%.
The poll also placed Independent Luke 'Ming' Flanagan on course for a seat in the Midlands North West constituency.
Fine Gael's Mairead McGuinness and Matt Carthy of Sinn Féin also appear likely to win seats, although they may be more reliant on transfers.
The final seat in the constituency appears to be between the Fianna Fáil pair of Pat the Cope Gallagher and Thomas Byrne and sitting Independent MEP Marian Harkin.
The South constituency is also a four-seater, with one of those seats likely to go to sitting Fianna Fáil MEP Brian Crowley.
Sinn Féin's Liadh Ní Riada appears likely to also win a seat, while Fine Gael's three candidates - sitting MEP Seán Kelly, Deirdre Clune and Simon Harris - all polled strongly, suggesting that they may take the remaining seats if transfers work as Fine Gael would hope.
All of the regional exit polls had a 3% margin of error and surveyed 1,000 people in each of the respective constituencies.
EU countries go to the polls
European elections culminate today with "Super Sunday" when the remainder of the EU's 28 countries go to the polls.
The vote is expected to confirm the dominance of pro-European Union centrists despite a rise in support for the far-right and left.
Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Poland are among the major EU member states voting today, representing the bulk of the 388 million Europeans eligible to cast ballots and elect the 751 deputies to sit in the European Parliament from 2014-2019.
After years of economic crisis, rising unemployment and poor growth, many Europeans have come to question the wisdom of ever-closer EU integration and are expected to vote for Eurosceptic parties on the right or left that promise radical change.
Opinion polls suggest at least a quarter of seats in the parliament will go to anti-EU or protest groups, but at least 70% will remain with the four mainstream, pro-EU blocs: the centre-left, centre-right, liberals and Greens.
Some of the earliest polls opened in Greece, where voting is compulsory. The last ballots will be cast in Italy, where polls will remain open until 10pm Irish time.
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