• seats in Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland). Its composition is set out in Article 18 of the Constitution of Ireland...
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    -6.254021 Seanad Éireann (/ˈʃænəd ˈɛərən, ˈʃænəð/ SHAN-əd(h) AIR-ən, Irish: [ˈʃan̪ˠəd̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]; "Senate of Ireland") is the upper house of the Oireachtas...
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  • The 22nd Seanad was in office from 2002 to 2007. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 2002 general...
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    Seanad Éireann (Irish pronunciation: [ˈʃan̪ˠəd̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Senate of Ireland) was the upper house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Irish Free State...
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    Eileen Flynn (politician) (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    Travellers. In June 2020, Taoiseach Micheál Martin appointed Flynn to Seanad Éireann, the Irish Senate. She is the first Traveller to serve in the Oireachtas...
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  • Michael Yeats (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    to 1980 he was a member of Seanad Éireann. In 1961 he was elected to the 10th Seanad by the Labour Panel. In 1965 he was nominated by the Taoiseach Seán...
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    Hildegarde Naughton (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    Retrieved 19 July 2013. "Nomination of MemberSeanad Éireann (24th Seanad) – Monday, 22 July 2013". Houses of the Oireachtas. 22 July 2013. Archived...
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    first president of Ireland to have served in both Houses of the Oireachtas, having previously been a member of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. Before his...
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    Jim Higgins (Irish politician) (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    Gael politician. He served as a member of Seanad Éireann, Dáil Éireann, and was a European People's Party Member of the European Parliament for the North-West...
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  • election for Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), to take place not later than ninety days after a dissolution of 32nd Dáil on...
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    Douglas Hyde (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    Sinn Féin and the independence movement. He was elected to Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Irish Free State's Oireachtas (parliament), at a by-election...
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    Denis O'Donovan (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    previously served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 2016 to 2020 and Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 2011 to 2016. He served as a Teachta...
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    Regina Doherty (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    Deputy leader of Seanad Éireann since 2022. She was Leader of the Seanad from 2020 to 2022, and has been Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad since June 2020...
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  • Seán Dorgan (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    as General Secretary of Fianna Fáil since June 2007. He was also briefly a member of the 22nd Seanad, to which he was nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie...
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  • John Magnier (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    the upper house of the Irish Parliament, Seanad Éireann. He is based at Coolmore Stud at Fethard in County Tipperary, considered one of the world's pre-eminent...
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  • Seán O'Connor (businessman) (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    previously served as a member of Seanad Éireann. O'Connor was educated at Terenure College, Dublin, where he was a member of the Senior Cup rugby team...
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    26th Seanad took place after the 2020 Irish general election, with postal ballots due on 30 and 31 March. Seanad Éireann is the upper house of the Oireachtas...
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  • Patrick Bergin (politician) (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    Party member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 8th Seanad in 1954. He did not contest the 1957 Seanad election...
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  • vacancies are shown in italics "Seanad Éireann debates, Volume 169, 26 June 2002: Election of Members to Dáil Éireann". Oireachtas. Archived from the...
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  • held for a vacancy in Seanad Éireann on Monday, 29 April 2024. The vacancy was caused by the resignation for health reasons of Sinn Féin's Niall Ó Donnghaile...
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    Darragh O'Brien (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    final count. He was nominated by the Taoiseach Brian Cowen to the 23rd Seanad on 3 March 2011. He was elected to the 24th Seanad as a Senator for the...
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  • Paddy O'Toole (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    politician. He was nominated by the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave to the 13th Seanad Éireann in 1973. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his second attempt...
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  • John Brennan (Irish senator) (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    1977) was a draper and publican, Fianna Fáil politician and a member of Seanad Éireann from 1960 to 1977. He was from Clontibret in County Monaghan and...
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    Brian Friel (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    nationalism and was a member of the Nationalist Party. Taoiseach Charles Haughey nominated Friel to serve as a member of Seanad Éireann (the Irish Senate)...
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  • Louis Walsh (politician) (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    politician. He was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957, and from 1958 to 1961. He was elected to the 8th Seanad in 1954 by the Administrative...
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    Terry Leyden (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    on 17 December 1992 he stood unsuccessfully in the 1993 election to Seanad Éireann on the Administrative Panel, and was unsuccessful again in 1997 when...
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  • Eoin Ryan Jnr (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    Europe of the Nations group. Ryan comes from an Irish political family. His father, Eoin Ryan Snr, was a senator in Seanad Éireann for a number of years...
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    Nora Connolly O'Brien (category Nominated members of Seanad Éireann)
    politician, activist and writer. She was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1957 to 1969. Nora Connolly was the daughter of Irish republican and socialist leader...
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  •   Denotes incumbent member of Seanad Éireann Families in the Oireachtas List of female members of Dáil Éireann Records of members of the Oireachtas McNamara...
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    is the title of the chair (or presiding officer) of Seanad Éireann, the sixty-member upper house of the Oireachtas, the legislature of Ireland. The current...
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