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6 unusual facts about Dail Eireann


1950 in Northern Ireland

12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.

BC-STV

If votes are transferred because a candidate has exceeded the quota required to win, all of that candidate's ballots are examined for transfer votes (Senatorial rules), unlike the method used for the Irish Dáil in which, after a candidate has reached the quota, only the last parcel of votes transferred to that candidate are examined for further preferences (the Hare method).

Éire

Noel Davern asked in the Dáil in 1974 why Irish stamps had EIRE rather than ÉIRE.

The genitive case Éireann is used in the Gaelic forms of the titles of companies and institutions in Ireland e.g. Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail), Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament) or Poblacht na hÉireann (The Republic of Ireland).

Fáinne

The effectiveness of the organisation was acknowledged in the Dáil Éireann on 6 August 1920, when Richard Mulcahy, the Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for Clontarf suggested that a league on the model of the Fáinne for the support of Irish manufactures might be established.

Queen Victoria Building

This statue stood outside the legislative assembly of the Republic of IrelandDáil Éireann in Leinster House, Dublin, – until 1947, when it was put into storage and was given to the people of Sydney by the Government of the Republic of Ireland in the 1980s.


An Stad

Anecdotally, in the film Michael Collins, during a scene where Collins and Harry Boland are seen cycling away from a British raid on leaders of Dáil Éireann, An Stad is visible in the background.

Bansha

Michael Ferris was a Teachta Dála in Dáil Éireann from 1989 until his death on parliamentary business in Lisbon on March 20, 2000 at the age of 69.

Fergal O'Hanlon

His brother Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain was elected a Sinn Féin abstentionist TD in the 1957 general election to Dáil Éireann.

Irish republican legitimatism

The party now contests elections to the Dail Eireann and the Northern Ireland Assembly - "partionist parliaments" in the legitimatist view - and takes up the seats it wins.

James Ennis

He was later an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Dublin County constituency, standing for Cumann na nGaedheal at the 1932, 1933 general elections and for Fine Gael at the 1937 general elections.

Kathleen O'Connor

A National School teacher by profession, she was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Clann na Poblachta Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency at the Kerry North by-election on 29 February 1956, following the death of her father Johnny Connor.

Kilconnell

His nephew Joe Callanan (FF) lost his Dáil seat in the Galway East constituency in the General Election of 2007.

Martin Doherty

Photos of the paramilitary display at Doherty's funeral appeared in Irish newspapers causing John Bruton, the leader of opposition party Fine Gael, to criticise the government during a debate in Dáil Éireann.

Mick Wallace

He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency.


see also

Ballynacargy

Robert Troy, Politician and Member of Dáil Éireann since 2011 as a representative of the Fianna Fáil party.

Henry Dockrell

Henry Morgan Dockrell (died 1955), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael politician who was elected to both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann

John McGuinness

Seán McGuinness (died 1978), also known as John McGuinness, Irish Republican who was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 but did not take his seat and was later disqualified

Michael Healy-Rae

Healy-Rae has raised The Hum in Dáil Éireann after witnessing it himself while meeting some of his constituents who were "nearly gone out of their minds" with it.