43 out of 60 Seanad seats
First look at TCD and NUI counts
Green Party’s five existing senators not seeking re-election.
Ballots open on 30 December
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“Sharp decline” in volunteers
‘Separation point’
‘Are we entitled to recommend against policy change?’
Last week, Gript highlighted the fact that senior Irish doctors are undergoing “international training” in a late-term abortion method known as Dilation and Evacuation, with a view to carrying out such abortions in this country. During the abortion referendum of 2018, the public was given repeated public assurances that this kind of abortion would […]
“We are moving away from describing these variants as the Brazilian variant or the South African variant.”
If possession is nine-tenths of the law, then that seems to be most true of the recent TCD and NUI senate elections, where all six incumbents were comfortably re-elected, even though some interesting characters ran them close. Ruth Coppinger, the former Solidarity-PBP TD, was one such character, who missed out by a head on NUI’s […]