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Ireland votes for EU election and divorce referendum
By EUobserver
Irish polling stations opened at 7AM on Friday for local and European elections plus a referendum to change the constitution on divorce. Ireland elects 13 MEPs, two of them to take their seats only after Brexit. Results will be announced when polls close elsewhere in Europe on Sunday. The turnout in Irish EU elections five years ago was 52.4 percent, well above the EU average of 42.6 percent.