Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin and Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Simon Harris have selected a majority of ...

Seven women and four men have been appointed to the Seanad by Taoiseach Micheál Martin to fill the remaining 11 seats in the ...

RTÉ Sports broadcaster Evanne Ní Chuilinn has been nominated to the Seanad for Fine Gael. The Taoiseach announced his 11 ...

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Under the Government agreement, six of the senators will be selected by Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and ...

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

TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN has announced his 11 nominees to be appointed to the Seanad. His nominees include politicians from ...

The veteran Sinn Fein politician is leaving his job as Stormont economy minister to take on a new role in the upper chamber of the Irish parliament.

Counting is continuing for nominees to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament). Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy was elected after announcing his intention to run and quit ...

Armed with that bit of knowledge bicameralism becomes self-explanatory; two chambers which in Ireland's case refers to the Dáíl, the lower house of parliament and Seanad Éireann the upper house.

The time is now to cast the last votes in the Seanad election. Postal voting for 49 seats on 7 vocational and university panels has been ongoing since mid-January and counting will begin on Wednesday.