Donegal South West TD Pearse Doherty has confirmed that Sinn Féin will be calling for a yes vote in the upcoming referendum to abolish the Seanad, which will take place on Friday 4th October.
Deputy Doherty, who has been appointed as the party’s referendum campaign director, said this morning that the government should have refered the issue of the Seanad to the constitutional convention where other issues of constitutional importance are being discussed.
In 2007, Pearse Doherty became the first Sinn Fein member to be elected to Seanad Eireann, and he says he made his views known from day one…………….
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