More: Stormont restoration - Rate the minister Seanad Éireann, or the Senate, is the upper house of the Oireachtas ...

The Seanad holds 60 members, 11of them are nominated by the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and 49 are elected. It sits in ...

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The reformer, James Connery. 1833. From the Irish Office collection. Image and data provided by the Oireachtas Library. Copyright in this scan is held by the Houses ...

After the drama of a new Government being formed last week, the spotlight turns to the Seanad and who will take a seat in the ...

The election to the upper house of the Oireachtas is taking place, with all seats to be filled by January 30 With the general election in the rear view mirror, attention now turns to Ireland's ...

Murphy said she received the advice from the Houses of the Oireachtas Service. She added that said to exclude an Independent TD who is not a senior or junior minister from a technical group would ...

This time it is for the Seanad, the Upper House of the Oireachtas. In recent weeks, 141 candidates hoping to win a seat in the next Seanad have been making their pitches to people who are eligible ...

Incumbents Lynn Ruane and Tom Clonan, and Aubrey McCarthy (pictured below), have been elected as Senators in the University of Dublin constituency.

The upper house of Oireachtas is located inside Leinster House, the same building as Dáil Eireann Counting is continuing for nominees to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament).

While the Seanad is the upper house of the Oireachtas, most laws are proposed and passed in the Dáil. As with other bicameral parliamentary systems, the upper house acts alongside the lower house ...