Polls start closing at 11pm Irish time on Tuesday and the last ones shut at 6am on Wednesday. Here is when to watch, and which races will tell you who is winning.
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Melbourne Cup 2026: Joseph O’Brien unleashes FIVE-horse Irish raid as Trustyourinstinct tipped to stop a nation
End of an era: Ireland’s last Unifil troops head to Lebanon this month, and a row is brewing over the risky EU mission that could follow
Covid reckoning: Ireland’s pandemic verdict finally due within weeks after review sits down with Varadkar, Holohan and Martin
Spy ships on the seabed? Chinese vessels accused of mapping the cables that carry 99% of the world’s communications – and Ireland’s own strategy admits we’re exposed
Antonelli’s tears, Russell ‘distraught’ and Mercedes fined: The bitter-sweet fallout from F1’s youngest title win
Connemara bus boost: EIGHT extra Route 424 services kick in for packed Spiddal and Carraroe commuters – plus every other public transport change this month
€21bn on the table: Government eyes EU defence loans a year after Donohoe blocked Ireland’s €100m bid
GTA 6 is just 17 days away – and it will reportedly gobble up a monster 210GB of your console
Learjet horror in Florida: all nine on board killed as Bahamas-bound jet plunges into mobile home park, leaving a burning crater
Revealed: 2,700 derelict homes left to rot across Ireland, and one man’s map suggests owners could owe €49.5m in unpaid levies
Double welfare payday: Christmas Bonus lands week of 7 December – exactly who gets it, and the payments that DON’T qualify
Tralee IPAS centre death: man, 49, charged with murder at special Sunday night court sitting and remanded in custody
Le Bris on the brink? Sunderland rock bottom with five points after Coventry humiliation – and the next five fixtures are a horror show
Revolut DOUBLES its grip on Irish wallets as nearly half of us now use it – but the big three still control your salary
Ireland v Argentina: Prendergast wrist sweat, 48,400 tickets gone and Farrell’s two huge calls before Friday’s opener
Clampers out, tow trucks in: Dublin’s €51m parking crackdown is live, and the suburbs could be hit hardest
‘Brazen’: Former Waterford school principal, 91, jailed for abusing pupil in his office in the 1970s as victim says memories came back ‘like a dam breaking’
Documentary STUNS Hollywood: Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes film beats DC’s Clayface to No 1, a first in 22 years
US midterms election night: your hour-by-hour guide in Irish time, from the 11pm first results to Alaska’s 6am finale
Tag: US midterms 2026
Revealed: Trump’s secret Plan B to rule without Congress if Democrats win the midterms, from new tariffs to student visa crackdown
Aides have reportedly spent months preparing to push the president's agenda through executive power, and to fend off investigations, if Democrats take Congress on Tuesday.
Trump’s Senate nightmare? The 12 knife-edge races that will decide who controls Congress, and what the final polls say
Democrats need four extra seats to take the US Senate. These are the 12 states that will decide it, from Maine to Alaska, and what the last polls before Tuesday show.
Graham dynasty on the brink: Lindsey’s sister tied 48-48 with a Democrat in Trump country as South Carolina shock looms
Lindsey Graham's sister Darline is dead level with Democrat Annie Andrews in a new poll, turning one of the safest Republican seats in America into a final-weekend battleground.
Trump reinstates Iowa and Kansas rallies after U-turn in final days of US midterms
A day after Republicans said Donald Trump would skip Kansas and Iowa for phone-in events, the President is back on the road, with tight Senate races and questions over his schedule hanging over the final weekend before Tuesday's vote.
Maine governor Janet Mills reveals she voted for Troy Jackson after ‘shut up’ storm rocks Collins race
Janet Mills says she voted for Troy Jackson in Maine's toss-up Senate race, despite their history of tension and his 'shut up' outburst at Susan Collins in the final debate.
Record early vote: 42 million Americans have already voted and registered Democrats are out in front
Early voting in the US midterms has passed 42 million ballots, with registered Democrats making up a larger share of early voters. Experts warn Republicans could close the gap on election day.
Abortion, billionaires and cannabis: the 145 big votes Americans face on midterm day beyond Congress
Beyond the battle for Congress, voters in 39 states will decide 145 ballot measures on Tuesday, including abortion rights, a California billionaire tax and an end to Massachusetts cannabis sales.
Ted Cruz brands El-Sayed a ‘jihadist leprechaun’ as vicious Michigan Senate brawl goes down to the wire
Ted Cruz's 'jihadist leprechaun' jibe and a top Democratic donor's defection have inflamed Michigan's Senate race, but Abdul El-Sayed still leads most polls against Mike Rogers.
Ramaswamy pulls explosive ad starring Amy Acton’s estranged mother after fury from his own party
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign has taken down an attack ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother, after Governor Mike DeWine and other Republicans joined Democrats in condemning it.
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