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OUTGOING FIANNA FÁIL TDs Malcolm Byrne, Timmy Dooley and Margaret Murphy O’Mahony have received nominations to the Seanad.
The trio lost their seats during this month’s general election, but are hoping to return to government via the country’s upper house in a few weeks’ time.
They could each do so as one of 43 senators who are elected from panels of candidates representing five different vocational interests.
Dooley, the party’s former communications spokesperson, is running for election on the Industrial and Commercial Panel after receiving a nomination from the Restaurants Association of Ireland today – the last day for an outside body to do so.
He was a long-serving front-bench spokesperson until last year’s Votegate controversy, and lost his Dáil seat in Clare.
Meanwhile, Byrne – who became the second-shortest serving TD ever after he lost his seat in Wexford – has been nominated to the Cultural and Educational Panel.
Murphy O’Mahony, who lost her seat in Cork South-West, has also been nominated to the Cultural and Educational Panel.
Nominees for the five panels are formed before the Seanad General Election from candidates who are deemed to have knowledge and practical experience of relevant interests and services.
The Cultural and Educational Panel deals with national language and culture, literature, art, education, law and medicine, and is made up of five elected senators.
The Agricultural Panel deals with agricultural and allied interests and fisheries, and is made up of 11 elected senators.
The Labour Panel deals with both organised and unorganised labour, and is also made up of 11 elected senators.
The Industrial and Commercial Panel deals with industry and commerce, including banking, finance, accountancy, engineering and architecture, and is made up of nine elected senators.
And the Administrative Panel deals with public administration and social services, including voluntary social activities, and is made up of seven elected senators.
Individuals can receive nominations from one of a number of bodies who are deemed to be representative of the interests and services of a relevant panel, and whose primary interests are not for profit-making purposes.
Candidates were required to be nominated by these bodies by noon today, and those put forward will now have their names on the ballot as part of the overall Seanad elections.
Nominees can also come from the Oireachtas, via any newly elected TDs or outgoing senators, who may nominate one candidate for any panel between them. Each TD or outgoing senator may join in one nomination only.
The deadline for Oireachtas nominations closes on 2 March. Ballot papers will be issued from 16 March to those eligible to vote for one of the five panels, which includes members of the incoming Dáil, the outgoing Seanad, and members of local authorities.
Voting for the 43 Seanad seats will close on 30 March, when counting will begin.
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They are only scratching the surface with this research
@Tony Gordon: yes itchy and scratchy
@Tony Gordon: That comment really got under my skin lol.
A very unpleasant thing. Apart from abnormal skin conditions, frequent excessive intake of coffee and alcohol leads to skin dryness – which causes excessive itchiness which leads to excessive scratching – and risk of scrab cuts, which can become infected by scratching with unclean fingernails.
The fore-arms, back of neck and the back are most often affected. Unless primarily due to piles, the coffee/alcohol itchiness also can occur between the legs and buttocks.
Moisturising creams are not worth their expensive costs. Use a litre of warm water with a capful of liquid dettol disinfectant for skin treatment mixed in (not the sink/WC disinfectant kind) to wipe the affected area(s). To reach the back areas, use a hand-towel soaked in the warm water/dettol mix and rub all over as if drying your back.
Do this daily or as needed. Sorted. Then back to the booze and coffee, ad infinitum.
Or just ease off the excessive coffee and booze.
So an itchy hand doesn’t mean your going to get money???
Here’s a great article about a woman who developed Shingles secondary to HIV infection, the infection caused nerve damage to her scalp and skull, her brain rewired nerves to the Itch centre of her brain (we now know it’s the periaqueductal gray), similar to a phantom limb. She eventually literally scratched through her skull and injured her brain:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/30/the-itch
“One morning, after she was awakened by her bedside alarm, she sat up and, she recalled, “this fluid came down my face, this greenish liquid.” She pressed a square of gauze to her head and went to see her doctor again. M. showed the doctor the fluid on the dressing. The doctor looked closely at the wound. She shined a light on it and in M.’s eyes. Then she walked out of the room and called an ambulance. Only in the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, after the doctors started swarming, and one told her she needed surgery now, did M. learn what had happened. She had scratched through her skull during the night—and all the way into her brain.”
@David Jordan: Unreal, thanks for sharing
@David Jordan: Just before bed. Thanks.
What the hell are they talking about?
If it wasn’t for those pesky peptide receptors.
The brain tells me? What, so where am I in the body then ?
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