Tuesday 27 May 2014 16.11 Fine Gael's Mairead McGuinness has been elected on the fifth count in the European Midlands-North-West constituency.
Speaking afterwards, she said she had no desire to contest another Dáil election and ruled out a second attempt at securing her party's nomination to contest the Presidency.
She paid tribute to her running mate, Jim Higgins, whose elimination resulted in her reaching the quota.
Mr Higgins plans to retire from political life after he lost his seat earlier today.
Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy is now less than 3,000 votes shy of the quota but his campaign team do not expect him to cross the line as a result of the sixth count, involving the distribution of a McGuinness surplus of 6,408.
The battle for the fourth and final seat still looks like a tangle between outgoing MEPs - Independent Marian Harkin and Fianna Fáil's Pat The Cope Gallagher.
The result of the sixth count is expected early this evening.
Independent Luke 'Ming' Flanagan was elected yesterday in the four-seat constituency.
No one was elected on the ninth or tenth counts in the South constituency, where two of the four seats remain to be filled.
Grace O'Sullivan of the Green Party, Labour MEP Phil Prendergast and Independent Diarmuid O'Flynn have been excluded so far today.
Sinn Féin's Liadh Ní Riada and Fianna Fáil's Brian Crowley have been elected as MEPs.
Fine Gael's Seán Kelly remains on course to take the third seat.
A little over 2,000 votes separate Fine Gael's Simon Harris and Deirdre Clune and Fianna Fáil's Kieran Hartley for the fourth and final seat.
Sinn Féin's Lynn Boylan, Fine Gael's Brian Hayes and Independent Nessa Childers were elected in the three-seat Dublin Euro constituency.
Meanwhile, six of the 949 council seats available remain to be filled in the local authority elections.
A recount will be held tomorrow in the Dún Laoghaire electoral area.
There will be a re-vote in the Ballybay-Clones electoral area of Monaghan on 7 June following the death of councillor Owen Bannigan.
The counting of votes in Northern Ireland's three-seat constituency is continuing at King's Hall on the outskirts of Belfast.
Sinn Féin's Martina Anderson topped the poll and was elected on the first count yesterday.
Following the elimination of Alliance Party candidate Anna Lo, four candidates remain in the hunt for the two remaining seats.
It is expected that outgoing MEPs Diane Dodds and Jim Nicholson will retain their seats, seeing off the challenge of Jim Allister of the TUV and Alex Attwood of the SDLP.
The count is expected to conclude in the late afternoon.
Full breakdown of Local Election results so far
Full breakdown of European Elections results so far
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