Irish Labour leader puts Mairia Cahill forward for Seanad byelection
Labour haven’t lost any time in trying to fill Jimmy Hart’s lately vacated seat in the upper house in Dublin. Mairia Cahill is the surprise proposal from the party’s leadership. The rest of the party has to ratify her candidacy, although given they awarded her their Jim Larkin Prize earlier in the year that looks like a formality. Joan Burton why she’s been nominated: Cutting indecently to the realpolitik of it all, Cahill be hard for the other parties in …