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This musician and LGBT activist is the first senator elected to the new Seanad
Sinn Féin’s Warfield became the mayor of South Dublin after being elected to the council in 2014.
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FINTAN WARFIELD, WHO was the youngest mayor in the country at just 22 in 2014, has topped the polls in the Seanad Cultural and Educational Panel elections.
Sinn Féin’s Warfield became the mayor of South Dublin after being elected to the council in 2014.
He is a relation of Wolfe Tones musician Derek Warfield and has toured with the musician.
He was elected after the first count, taking 200 papers for 200,000 votes, well above the 187,167 quota.
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Speaking after his election, Warfield said that being elected in the centenary of the Easter Rising was a “massive honour and privilege”.
“I am immensely proud to have been elected to the Seanad and to have received such a large vote.
“To have been elected on the centenary of the Rising is a massive honour and privilege and I look forward to working with the rest of my colleagues in Leinster House to fight for the type of change promised in the Proclamation.
“As a young person involved in the arts and an LGBT activist, I will be a progressive voice on these issues in the Seanad. I hope that in the coming days I will be joined in the Seanad by an enlarged Sinn Féin team.”
While mayor, Warfield took a 10% pay cut to his €30,000 salary and gave the money to a local women’s refuge, LGBT group BeLonGTo and Citywise (a group that provides young people with educational support in Jobstown).
The 11th count of the five-seat panel finished not long ago, with 13 candidates left.
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An article such as this is meaningless unless you clearly define what you see as ‘poverty’. In some countries its the lack of a family car or inability to afford a restaurant meal once a month. In others, it’s young children digging insects out of the ground to eat because they’ve not had a nutritious meal for weeks. At this stage, we all know that people’s finances are being drastically stretched in this country, that housing costs are ridiculous etc.. but there’s no harm in putting a sense of perspective on it. We are still amongst the most fortunate people on the planet.
@Liz O’Neill: That was very lazy of you Liz. You gave two extreme examples of what poverty might mean with only one applying to this country.
Are you suggesting that in this ‘Most Fortunate Country’ children are not living/cramped in hotel rooms, lacking all the freedoms and facilities to play and do the things that other children can do?
Are you suggestion that is this most fortunate country, we dont have children (let alone adults) begging and sleeping on the streets?
Are you suggesting that in this most fortunate country of ours – that people are so lucky and fortunate, that they get the free choice whether to provide food or heating for their children.
And of course because we are so fortunate in this country -everyone here are so well off that they can pay all their household bills on time in this massive juggle to survive. we are so fortunate in this country, that the sheriff, the moneylenders and banks, never bother people because of arrears or unpaid debts. Need I go on Liz?
Yes Liz, you are dead right. Theres no poverty in Ireland because no one is eating insects out of the ground, sure we only did that in the 1840′s!
@Liz O’Neill: Whilst I agree with you, they should’ve given the definitions used, it’s only good journalism. Your examples are extreme and misleading you compare middle class and extreme poverty.
@Locojoe: OK that’s the position you take but do you admit there is a serious housing crisis in the country. I’m homeless 5 years now so I’ll have some insight.
Government (Taxpayer) should get an equity stake in Landlords houses for the subsidies paid directly to them in HAP and RAS ( over €1Billion a year). This applies for other state subsidies.
Accumulating equity stake in these houses will increase the social housing stock over time.
Social Justice Ireland note!
HAP and RAS subsidies should ideally be abolished to reduce rents to their true market rate and consequently reduce the price of houses (14 times annual rent) to affordable levels.
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