Independent TD Catherine Connolly has been elected Ireland’s 10th president in a landslide victory, winning 63 per cent of the vote.
The Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys won less than half that figure, with 29 per cent of the first-preference vote.
Fianna Fáil candidate Jim Gavin, who ended his campaign in early October but whose name remained on the ballot paper, took 7 per cent of the vote, the party’s worst-ever performance