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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ireland-votes-in-crucial-election.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sister Carmen (left) and Sister Clare from the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit in Fairview cast their votes" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-ireland-votes-in-crucial-election.jpg" alt="Sister Carmen (left) and Sister Clare from the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit in Fairview cast their votes"/></a></p>
<p>Voters in the Irish Republic are at the polls in the most eagerly anticipated election in decades.</p>
<p>Almost 3.2 million voters will cast their ballots with 550 plus candidates running in 43 constituencies for 166 seats. Polling stations opened at 7am on Friday.</p>
<p>Opinion polls have put Fine Gael well in the lead to head the next government, securing as much as 40% of the popular vote &#8211; potentially allowing for a single-party government propped up by independents.</p>
<p>But while the main opposition party is firmly on track to replace Fianna Fail in power, the Labour Party warned voters against giving anyone a &#8220;monopoly of power&#8221;.</p>
<p>While support for Labour has flagged during the campaign, leader Eamon Gilmore has appealed for support to ensure a coalition government.</p>
<p>Despite Micheal Martin&#8217;s popularity after taking the helm of Fianna Fail from outgoing Irish prime minister Brian Cowen, the party, which has been in power for 60 of the last 80 years, languishes at record lows in the polls.</p>
<p>Sinn Fein, which stands to gain seats for its outspoken opposition to government cuts and the controversial bailout from the International Monetary Fund and Europe, claimed the party would put &#8220;real political backbone&#8221; into the Dail.</p>
<p>Party president Gerry Adams is standing in the border county of Louth for the first time after he resigned as a Northern Ireland MP.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the Green Party, the outgoing junior coalition party, claims it is fighting for the last seat in five Dublin constituencies and in Louth, Carlow-Kilkenny, Galway West and Cork South Central. Elsewhere a record number of independents are also hoping to secure a seat.</p>
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