Voting is under way in Ireland in a general election that will set the political landscape for the next five years.The three largest parties were virtually neck-and-neck heading into the vote, with one party leader describing the race as "too close to call".An exit poll at 10pm will provide the first sense of what Ireland's next government may look like.It will end a lacklustre three-week campaign that seemed to fail to ignite a surge of enthusiasm among the public, after the election was offici

Voting is under way in Ireland in a general election that will set the political landscape for the next five years.The three largest parties were virtually neck-and-neck heading into the vote, with one party leader describing the race as "too close to call".An exit poll at 10pm will provide the first sense of what Ireland's next government may look like.It will end a lacklustre three-week campaign that seemed to fail to ignite a surge of enthusiasm among the public, after the election was officially called by Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris on November 8.