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What is the Irish Seanad and how are senators elected?
The Seanad holds 60 members, 11of them are nominated by the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and 49 are elected. It sits ...
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Trimble and Mallon sanctioned DUP ministers over rotation plan
A minute of an Executive meeting on June 8 said Mr Robinson and Mr Dodds had refused a request from First Minister Mr Trimble and deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon to meet with them “to ...
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What is the Irish Seanad and how are senators elected?
Former deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Seamus Mallon was nominated to the Seanad by then-Taoiseach Charles Haughey in 1982, holding the position of senator between May and ...