Seán Kyne, former Senator and government chief whip, will be running for the Seanad again after initially deciding to leave politics.
Former Senator and government chief whip Seán Kyne has reversed his decision to quit politics and will run again for the Seanad. Kyne said after the general election he was stepping away from politics following his unsuccessful attempt to win back the Galway West seat. But on Friday he said: “I received lots of calls from constituents in Galway West and colleagues in the parliamentary party to stay in politics.
Also there is now no TD of any party resident in Connemara so I feel there is a role to be played.” The Moycullen-based Irish speaker is the only one of five incumbents on the panel seeking re-election. There are 60 senators, of whom 43 are elected to five vocational panels by an electorate of just under 1,200 of incoming TDs, outgoing senators and local councillors. Six are elected by NUI and Trinity College graduates and 11 are appointed by the taoiseach
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