Enda Kenny has lost his bid to be elected Taoiseach to the new Dáil.
The Fine Gael leader failed in a vote of confidence of his abilities to lead the new Dáil, after he was defeated with 94 votes to 57.
The former Taoiseach was nominated for re-election by Fine Gael’s Noel Rock, with seven Labour TDs supporting the nomination as well as the Fine Gael party.
Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin, Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and AAA-PBP’s Richard Boyd Barrett have also been nominated by their respective parties for the role of Taoiseach.
The individual votes on their nominations is currently being counted.
Five Independent TDs - Michael Harty, Denis Naughten, Noel Grealish, Mattie McGrath, and Michael Collins – all abstained from the vote, while Michael Lowry was not in attendance of the Dáil sitting.
