Why can't more of us vote in Seanad elections?
Tomás Heneghan won a Supreme Court case to form change
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan · Declan Conlon
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Show Notes
A constitutional stopwatch is now ticking for the way in which some senators are elected. And it’s finally time for the Seanad reform which successive governments have promised but failed to deliver. That’s according to Tomás Heneghan, the University of Limerick graduate who won a landmark Supreme Court case earlier this year over being denied the right to vote for the upper houses’s university seats. On today's podcast he talks to Hugh and Pat about his historic case and how complying with it could cause problems for the coalition.
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