HISTORICAL FACTS: Seanad - The Untold Story

Final Seanad seats filled after marathon counting process

The last elected were independent candidate Eileen Flynn, Sinn Fein’s Nicole Ryan and Fianna Fail’s Fiona O’Loughlin and Diarmuid Wilson.

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2025

Seanad election count continues in final vocational panel

The final count is taking place in the administrative panel.

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2025

Conor Murphy to quit as Northern Ireland economy minister to join Irish parliament

Sinn Féin politician to step down after being elected to Seanad, and aims to push reunification agenda

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2025

'Eco-toilets' would make the Phoenix Park 'more accessible and welcoming' for visitors

Fine Gael Senator Emer Currie has called on the OPW to install eco-toilets in the well-known park

Dublin Live · May 28, 2023

Independent senator tells Seanad taxi driver 'refused' to take her home to halting site

Eileen Flynn, who is the only member of the Traveller community in either houses of the Oireachtas, said Ireland has a 'long way to go' in tackling racism

Irish Mirror · May 5, 2023

Singer and senator Frances Black thought she would be asked to leave Leinster House when first elected

The singer turned politician was in shock for six months when she was first elected

Irish Mirror · Jan 3, 2023

Ursula Von der Leyen heaps praise on Irish people over Ukrainian refugees as she quotes The Saw Doctors

President Von der Leyen was here to formally mark Ireland joining the EU, or EC (European Communities) as it was known then, 50 years ago

Irish Mirror · Dec 1, 2022

Ireland 'knows what it means to struggle for right to exist’, says EU's Ursula von der Leyen

Ms von der Leyen is on a two-day trip to Dublin, where she was meeting Taoiseach Micheal Martin

Irish Mirror · Dec 1, 2022

Minister taken to hospital and politicians asked to use underground tunnels in Leinster House

A Minister was taken to hospital and the Seanad was suspended for several hours on Wednesday afternoon

Dublin Live · Nov 17, 2022

Members of the Dail and Seanad who have declared themselves landlords and land owners

Around one in five members of the Dail and the Seanad are also landlords and landowners, with some TDs holding a portfolio of up to 18 properties

Irish Mirror · Aug 25, 2022