Seanad General Election 2025 - University Panels

I'd love to see Mullen & McDowell get kicked to the kerb, but this undemocratic panel will return them again. And then I'll finally have an opportunity to vote for the Seanad next time around (I'm a graduate from an IT).

These should still be opened up wider.

What's the size of the electorate like here versus what the potential could be? I don't know anybody who has bothered to register as NUI grads…

Open to correction but I think they are opening it to all graduates of Universities (of which the former IT's are now Technical Universities), not just degree holders.

That would include people with a Level 6 (certificate) and Level 7. Trades might also be considered but I am unsure of this

Be interesting to see what happens when the electorate is more balanced

Got a letter yesterday from Aubrey McCarthy. Not one of the leaflets all candidates send out subsidised by the taxpayer, but a proper letter, in an A5 window envelope, and a nice glossy A4 leaflet too. Must be costing him/his supporters a fair whack.

Never heard of him before but his schtick is that he set up a charity which makes him the last sort of person I'd vote for.

It might be Ronan Mullen's final time too. He gets elected on the strength of a strong vote from Maynooth.

We can but hope. The priest vote is going to be diluted by about eight times, at least in theory

The NUI panel is particularly awful this time. If you want to avoid Mullen and Mullen-alikes you need to tread incredibly carefully.

Well, I consider McDowell to be a high profile failed Dáil candidate, but he took some time off before trying the NUI panel (and got in)

The constitution limits the university Senators to 6. The amendment to allow changing it from 3 NUI, 3 Trinity only allows to take them away from the existing 6.

Don't recognise any of those names, who are the Mullen-alikes? (not that my vote is with NUI, just curious how they could possibly think there's more than one quota there for them)

Just looks like a bunch of people who couldn't get a Dail seat, Chu, Zappone Smyth O'Neill. Just a load of people desperately trying to get on the gravy train

If every thicko gets one vote, surely I deserve more than one 😁

We cant have the mucksavages that didnt go to Trinners voting in our election..

Fùck off knobs...

He called to my door last night. He had my house on a list of Trinity voters (I bought it from a retired Trinity Prof) He seemed like a nice chap but I had to break the news we were an NUI house now.

I'd never heard of door to door canvassing for a Seanad election before (well, Independent candidates for the main panels absolutely do go visit Councillors - but not on a University panel). Makes sense though, if you notice a clump in an area it'd be quick enough to drop by everyone on the register.

I've seen some - very little - postering in areas with high % of graduates; and even seen Ronán Mullen in Maynooth flyering years and years ago.

Trinity panel has one Labour and two Green, one of which is an ex TD

which means they already knew/expected /were told they weren’t getting put on via the other panels or Taoiseach picks

Linda O’Shea Farren has handeluvwred literature for the local and Dial elections personally already. No canvassing but I have gone out to give it back to her (twice) with a reminder that no junk mail applies to her also!