Quarter of a million locals eligible to vote in Presidential Election

Over 250,000 people in local constituencies are eligible to vote in this Friday's Presidential Election.

That's according to An Coimisún Toghcháin, Ireland's Electoral Commission, with over 3.5 million registered to vote nationally.

Locally, Longford-Westmeath has the highest amount of potential voters at just over 103,000.

Sligo-Leitrim has close to 88,000 people registered whilst there's over 60,000 in Roscommon-Galway.

Polling opens this Friday at 7am and will close at 10pm.

Brian Dawson from An Coimisún Toghcháin, has this advice for first-time voters: