Updates for Friday 24 June 2016
UK votes to leave the EU - despite NI voting to Remain
Turnout in Northern Ireland was 62% overall
56% of people in NI wanted to remain and 44% wanted to leave
That's it from BBC News NI Live on a momentous day politically. We'll be back on Monday with updates on news, sport, traffic and weather. We'll leave you with Wilfred Swain's picture of clouds rolling over the Mournes and Murlough beach.
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The Post Office says "we have seen an unusually high number of people in Northern Ireland seeking Irish passport applications".
Image source, ThinkstockMeanwhile, the Republic's Department of Foreign Affairs says there has been a "high volume of calls" to the Irish embassy in London seeking information about Irish passports.
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The Labour Party in NI says the vote to leave the EU was fuelled by an electorate who "feel threatened and insecure".
"We must now build an alternative vision that can challenge the failed politics here and deliver optimism and hope for communities abandoned by Tory austerity and economic failure," the party said.
See how each Northern Ireland constituency voted in the EU referendum here.
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The implications for Northern Ireland following the UK's vote to back Brexit are "worrying", Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy has said.
"There's an opportunity to decide what's in the best interests of the people of this island. Clearly those tasked with negotiating an exit against our wishes will not have our interests at heart," he told the BBC's Talkback programme.
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Vote Leave's Lee Reynolds quotes from the 'West Wing' on the BBC's Talkback programme, saying: "We don't get to choose what people care about."
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US Vice President Joe Biden - speaking during a visit to Dublin - says while Washington would have preferred Britain to vote to stay in the EU, the "special bond" between the UK and the US would not be affected.
Image source, AFP/Getty images"As the United States has a long standing friendship with the United Kingdom, one of the world's great democracies, we fully respect the decision that they have made," he said.
The Dáil will meet on Monday to discuss the impact of Brexit.
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Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir says he will "act resolutely to protect the interests of all our people" after the UK voted to leave the EU.
"I will be working today in consort with ministerial colleagues and partners across these islands, in Brussels and the US, to assess and respond to the impact of the Leave vote," he says.
How will Brexit affect border and policing in Northern Ireland.
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Foyle MP Mark Durkan wants the Irish government to convene an all-party forum for political parties across Ireland "to consider the issues and implications arising from the EU referendum result".
Image source, Pacemaker"We need to look soberly at all of the issues which will now be real and no longer dismissible as campaign rhetoric," he says.