• The 18th Seanad was in office from 1987 to 1989. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1987 general...
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  • John Magnier (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    horse-breeding industry. Magnier was a senator in the upper house of the Oireachtas, Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 1989. He is based at Coolmore Stud at Fethard in County...
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  • senators served until the close of poll for the 18th Seanad. There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 were elected on five vocational panels, 6 were...
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    Mary Robinson (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989, and as a councillor on Dublin Corporation from...
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  • The 19th Seanad was in office from 1989 to 1993. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1989 general...
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    David Norris (politician) (category Members of the 18th 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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  • Joe O'Toole (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    He lives in Kilsallaghan, County Dublin. He was first elected to the 18th Seanad in 1987 for the National University (NUI) constituency, and was re-elected...
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    Brian Friel (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    Society of Literature and the Irish Academy of Letters. He was appointed to Seanad Éireann in 1987 and served until 1989. In later years, Dancing at Lughnasa...
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    The Seanad Éireann career of Mary Robinson (Irish: Máire Mhic Róibín; née Bourke) began on 11 June 1969 and ended on 5 July 1989. Mary Robinson was elected...
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  • Donie Cassidy (category Members of the 18th 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 Bradford (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    he 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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    Seán Haughey (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1989 to 1990. Haughey served as a member of Seanad Éireann from 1987 until 1992. In that year he was elected to Dáil Éireann...
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    Phil Hogan (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    elected to Seanad Éireann as a senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel, serving between 1987 and 1989. After serving as a Senator in Seanad Éireann...
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  • Eddie Bohan (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    Vintners. He was elected to the 18th Seanad in 1987 by the Industrial and Commercial Panel, and was returned to the Seanad in subsequent elections until...
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    Shane Ross (category Members of the 18th 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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  • Brendan Ryan (Cork politician) (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    Brendan Ryan (born 6 August 1946) is an Irish politician and former member of Seanad Éireann for the National University constituency. He was an independent...
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    Michael D. Higgins (category Members of Seanad Éireann for the National University of Ireland)
    from 1981 to 1982 and 1987 to 2011. Between these terms, he returned to Seanad Éireann from 1983 to 1987 as a senator for the National University. He served...
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  • Don Lydon (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    Irish psychologist and former politician. He was a Fianna Fáil member of Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 2007, elected on the Labour Panel. Lydon was born in...
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    presentation only. The Dáil election was followed by an election to the 18th Seanad. Including Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (FG), returned automatically for Cavan–Monaghan...
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  • Oireachtas (legislature), of Ireland are known as TDs. It sat with the 18th Seanad as the two Houses of the Oireachtas. The 25th Dáil was dissolved by President...
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  • Seán Byrne (politician) (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    Fáil colleague Noel Davern. However, in the subsequent elections to the 18th Seanad Byrne was elected by the Cultural and Educational Panel. He did not contest...
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  • John A. Murphy (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    represented the National University constituency as an independent member of Seanad Éireann. As a senator, he was noted for his advocacy of political and cultural...
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  • Joe Doyle (politician) (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    He served variously as a member of Dublin City Council, Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann, becoming Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1998 to 1999. Doyle, a former...
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  • Brian O'Shea (politician) (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    elections but was not elected on either occasion. O'Shea was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1987 as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel. Two...
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    Maurice Manning (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    never returned to the Dáil. After his 1987 defeat he was elected to the 18th Seanad, again on the Cultural and Educational Panel, and was re-elected three...
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  • Rory Kiely (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    1977, to the 14th Seanad. He was re-elected by the Agricultural Panel to every subsequent Seanad, except for the short-lived 16th Seanad in 1982, until he...
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  • Paschal Mooney (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    politician and a former member of Seanad Éireann. A journalist and broadcaster, he was first elected to the Seanad in 1987, on the Cultural and Educational...
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  • Brian Mullooly (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    school teacher before becoming involved in politics. Mullooly served in Seanad Éireann for over twenty years, holding the post of Cathaoirleach from 16...
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  • Des Hanafin (category Members of the 18th Seanad)
    Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for over 30 years as a member of Seanad Éireann (1969–93 and 1997–2002). He opposed social liberalisation, particularly...
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