Senior police have praised voter “calm” during the Referendum count with only six arrests made across the country.
People were detained for alleged breaches of the peace and assaults, Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said.
He said: “It is to everyone’s credit that they remained calm on a day of potentially high emotion and co-operated fully with our Police Officers and also the staff at Polling Places on a day when record numbers turned out to vote.
“This meant the ballot and count passed off smoothly and there were just a very few isolated incidents across the country involving a small number of alleged offences.”
Mr Higgins confirmed that over the period of the referendum ballot and count there were six arrests across the country mainly for alleged breaches of the peace and assaults.
