Sinn Fein Stormont minister Conor Murphy wins seat in Seanad

Sinn Fein Stormont curate Conor Murphy has secured a spot successful the Seanad arsenic the marathon counting process for the Irish parliament’s precocious location edges person to conclusion.

Mr Murphy took 1 of the 9 seats connected the concern and commercialized vocational sheet successful a effect confirmed adjacent to 1am connected Monday morning.

Northern Ireland’s outgoing system curate has vowed to bring a “northern perspective” to the Seanad and usage his power from Stormont to the Oireachtas to beforehand his party’s propulsion for Irish unification.

The different seats connected the sheet were taken by Fianna Fail’s Aidan Davitt, Mary Fitzpatrick and Ollie Crowe, Fine Gael’s Garrett Kelleher and Linda Nelson Murray, Labour’s Laura Harmon and independents Sharon Keogan and Frances Black.

Former Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell was among the candidates who missed retired connected a spot connected the panel.

The make-up of 3 different vocational panels person already been confirmed.

The 11 seats disposable connected some the cultivation sheet and the labour sheet and the 5 connected the taste and acquisition sheet person each been filled.

The 5th and last vocational sheet to beryllium counted astatine the location of Oireachtas astatine Leinster House volition beryllium the administrative one. That number volition statesman astatine 10am connected Monday.

A full of 111 candidates stood for the 43 seats disposable connected the vocational panels.

The 5 seats connected the taste and acquisition sheet were taken by Sinn Fein’s Pauline Tully, Fine Gael’s Cathal Byrne and Sean Kyne, Fianna Fail’s Shane Curley and autarkic Joe Conway.

Outgoing Fianna Fail legislator Lorraine Clifford-Lee missed retired connected re-election to the sheet portion erstwhile Fianna Fail TD Joe Flaherty besides failed to get elected.

On the cultivation panel, 4 Fine Gael candidates secured seats – Eileen Lynch, Paraic Brady, Maria Byrne and PJ Murphy.

Fianna Fail candidates Paul Daly, Niall Blaney and Teresa Costello besides won seats, arsenic did erstwhile Green Party TD and curate of authorities Malcolm Noonan, Sinn Fein’s Joanne Collins, Aontu’s Sarah O’Reilly and autarkic Victor Boyhan.

On the labour panel, erstwhile Sinn Fein TD Chris Andrews won a seat, arsenic did his enactment workfellow Maria McCormack. The different 9 seats were taken by Fianna Fail’s Robbie Gallagher, Margaret Murphy O’Mahony and Pat Casey, Fine Gael’s Mark Duffy, Mike Kennelly and Joe O’Reilly, Labour’s Nessa Cosgrove, Patricia Stephenson of the Social Democrats and autarkic Gerard Craughwell.

Former Fianna Fail inferior authorities curate Anne Rabbitte, who mislaid her Dail spot successful the wide election, missed retired connected a spot connected the labour panel.

Counting for the six seats connected the Seanad’s 2 assemblage constituencies has already been completed.

The 3 seats successful the Trinity/Dublin University constituency were taken by returning autarkic senators Lynn Ruane and Tom Clonan, on with different autarkic Aubrey McCarthy

Former children’s curate Katherine Zappone was among the well-known candidates to miss out.

On the National University of Ireland (NUI) panel, incumbent independents Michael McDowell, Ronan Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins were each re-elected.

The immense bulk of the nationalist bash not person a ballot successful the Seanad.

The Dail’s TDs, outgoing senators and section authorization councillors marque up the electorate for the 5 vocational panels.

Graduates of NUI institutions and Trinity College Dublin ballot for the six seats connected the 2 assemblage panels.

Senators statement authorities enactment guardant by the Government.

They tin amend Bills and suggest their ain Bills but cannot forestall 1 from becoming law.