Roscommon’s newest senator will make his maiden appearance in the Seanad at its first sitting later today. Gareth Scahill, ...

Spare a thought for the Coalition’s overdue triplets, still crawling towards the brightness of the ministerial day while ...

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

The leaders of the new Irish coalition government have confirmed eleven nominees to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the ...

Aontú has won its first seat in the Seanad with the election of its candidate Sarah O’Reilly to the Upper House on the ...

Independent Eileen Flynn, Sinn Fein’s Nicole Ryan and Fianna Fail candidates Fiona O’Loughlin and Diarmuid Wilson won four Seanad seats as the counting of votes in the vocational panels completed.

Independent Senator Michael McDowell has become the first candidate elected to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament). McDowell, a former tánaiste (deputy prime minister), has ...

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

Polls closed last week for the Seanad elections and counting left the agricultural panel returning four senators for Fine ...

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).

The final elected seats to the Irish parliament’s upper house have been filled following a marathon counting process. Independent Eileen Flynn, Sinn Fein’s Nicole Ryan and Fianna Fail ...