Tag: Seanad
Seanad Election 2025: Ireland’s Anti-Woke Fightback Draws Blood?
Norris, Bacik, Ruane, Flynn, Robinson. A conceit to residual Protestant hegemony and ironically styled as a mix of Mussolini’s very own Senate and Pope Pius XI’s antidote to Marxism as expressed via the vocational panels, the Irish Seanad has earned...
Is the Trinity Seanad Race Already Sewn Up?
Nominations are closed, ballot papers are being posted and the University of Dublin's 2022 Seanad by-election is on. It is a large field of 17 candidates, with representatives of minority communities, family therapists, former ambassadors, Continuity Greens, Dissident Greens, students,...
Chu for Seanad (Again)? Will Diversity Gimmick Woo Voters?
The characters (玩世不恭) denote the word cynicism in Mandarin Chinese and it appears that the impending Seanad race will be getting that in spades with news of Hazel Chu's snap involvement. Thought to have slung her political hook by burning...