• The 23rd Seanad was in office from 2007 to 2011. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 2007 general...
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  • served until the close of poll for the 23rd Seanad at the end of July 2007. There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad. 43 Senators are elected by the vocational...
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  • Paschal Mooney (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    it at the 2007 election to the 23rd Seanad. He was re-elected to Seanad Éireann on the Agricultural Panel in a Seanad by-election on 19 January 2010....
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    Rónán Mullen (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    the Seanad for the National University constituency in July 2007 and re-elected in 2011, 2016 and 2020. He has topped the poll in every NUI Seanad election...
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    Paddy Burke (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    Leas-Chathaoirleach (deputy chairperson) of the Seanad, and after his re-election in 2007 to the 23rd Seanad he was re-elected as Leas Cathaoirleach. He was...
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  • Pat Moylan (politician) (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    Committee. He was elected to the 23rd Seanad by the Agricultural Panel in 2007. He was elected as Cathaoirleach (chair) of the Seanad on 13 September 2007. He...
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    Marc MacSharry (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    provider from 2006 to 2017. Following his election to the Seanad in 2002, he was appointed Seanad spokesperson on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources...
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    Ivana Bacik (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    July 2021. Bacik previously served as Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad from 2011 to 2021, and a Senator for the Dublin University constituency...
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  • Retrieved 19 June 2021. "Election of Members to Dáil Éireann – Seanad Éireann (23rd Seanad) – Tuesday, 8 March 2011". Houses of the Oireachtas. Archived...
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  • Peter Callanan (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    Panel, and re-elected in 2002 to the 22nd Seanad and in 2007 to the 23rd Seanad. Callanan died on 11 October 2009. He was married to Sheila Callanan...
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    David Norris (politician) (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    former university lecturer and was a member of the Oireachtas, serving in Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 2024. He was the first openly gay person to be elected...
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  • Donie Cassidy (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    1945) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Leader of the Seanad from 2007 to 2011. He served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1982...
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    Paul Coghlan (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    to the 22nd Seanad, where he was Fine Gael spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment. He was re-elected in 2007 to the 23rd Seanad, again by the...
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    Paschal Donohoe (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    was elected to Seanad Éireann as a Senator for the Administrative Panel in July 2007. He was appointed in October 2007, as Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson...
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    Darragh O'Brien (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    the 23rd Seanad on 4 March 2011 to fill a vacancy. He was elected to the 24th Seanad for the Labour Panel in April 2011. He was the Fianna Fáil Seanad leader...
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  • Paul Bradford (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    was elected to the 18th Seanad on the Agricultural Panel, becoming the youngest-ever elected Senator. As a member of Seanad Éireann he was Fine Gael...
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    Pearse Doherty (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    received 21.2% of the first-preference vote. However, he was elected to Seanad Éireann as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel on 24 July 2007. On 12 July...
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  • Feargal Quinn (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    Seanad. During the Seanad abolition referendum campaign, the Bill demonstrated to the electorate, in a very palpable way, that reform of the Seanad was...
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    Jerry Buttimer (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    subsequently elected to the Seanad. He was Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs in the 23rd Seanad. He was critical of the...
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  • Oireachtas (legislature), of Ireland are known as TDs. It sat with the 16th Seanad as the two Houses of the Oireachtas. On 4 November 1982, President Patrick...
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    presentation only. The Dáil election was followed by the election to the 23rd Seanad. Including Rory O'Hanlon (FF), returned automatically for Cavan–Monaghan...
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  • Derek McDowell (category Members of the 22nd Seanad)
    regain his seat. He did not contest the subsequent elections to the 23rd Seanad. McDowell worked as Head of International Advocacy at Concern Worldwide...
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  • Fiona O'Malley (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    general election, but was nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern to the Seanad in August 2007. She was narrowly defeated in the race to become the leader...
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  • Labhrás Ó Murchú (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    the 21st Seanad. He was re-elected in 2002 to the 22nd Seanad and in 2007 to the 23rd Seanad. In June 2010, Ó Murchú admitted that he stayed in CCE headquarters...
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    Shane Ross (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    from 2011 to 2016 for the Dublin South constituency. He was a member of Seanad Éireann for the Dublin University from 1981 to 2011, until his election...
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  • Ivor Callely (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    the Dublin North-Central constituency from 1989 to 2007 and a member of Seanad Éireann from 2007 to 2011, having been nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie...
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    Mark Daly (politician) (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    served as Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann since December 2022. He previously served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from June 2020 to December...
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  • Joe O'Toole (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    July 1947) is an Irish former independent politician, who was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 2011. He was born and brought up in Dingle, County...
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  • Francis O'Brien (Irish politician) (category Members of the 23rd Seanad)
    chairman in 1986 to 1987. O'Brien was elected to the Seanad in 1989, but did not contest the 2011 Seanad election. In 2006, according to an article by the...
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