The upper house of Oireachtas is located inside Leinster House, the same building as Dáil Eireann Counting is continuing for nominees to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament). Sinn ...

An Coimisiún Toghcháin has called for a major push to increase voter registration for the new 6-seat Seanad Higher Education ...

Just over 72,000 people have registered to vote in the new University constituency in the Seanad - despite over 800,000 ...

Holding up a picture of her seven-week scan in Seanad Éireann, Sinn Féin Senator Nicole Ryan said it was the “only evidence” that her “pregnancy ever existed”. The scan was taken after she began ...

In 2010, the then-leader of the opposition in Dáil Éireann (lower house of Ireland’s parliament), Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny, announced that he and his party favored abolition of Seanad Éireann (upper ...

“Things do need to change and right now the system isn’t fair,” said Cork Senator Nicole Ryan who has called for a reform of the Seanad. Speaking in Seanad Éireann recently Senator Ryan said the upper ...

US Congressman Richard Neal is leading a bipartisan delegation of members of Congress in engagements in the EU, UK, and Ireland this week before heading to Northern Ireland tomorrow, May 25. On ...

DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Irish voters decided. by a narrow margin, to retain the upper house of the country's legislature, officials said Saturday. Just under 52 percent of votes cast in ...

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign congratulated, today, Seanad Éireann on passing a motion calling on the Irish Government to formally recognize the State of Palestine.The motion, which was ...

A moment of truth has arrived for Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Irish Parliament. The proposed amendment to the Constitution of Ireland seeks to abolish the indirectly elected, 60-member ...