Fine Gael TD John Paul was re-elected on the eighth count in Carlow/Kilkenny on Monday afternoon, securing his party's only seat in this constituency.
The south Kilkenny man took 3,624 votes from party colleague Pat Deering's surplus. It brought him to 13,172.
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