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Dáil Member Party Constituency Date of death Age at death (years) Cause 1st: Pierce McCan Sinn Féin: Tipperary East: 6 March 1919 36 Spanish flu [1] 1st: Terence MacSwiney: Sinn Féin: Cork Mid: 25 October 1920 41 Hunger strike in prison during the Irish War of Independence [2] 2nd: Frank Lawless: Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) Dublin County: 16 ...
This is a list of by-elections to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. By-elections in Ireland occur to fill vacant seats which can be caused by the death, resignation, disqualification or expulsion of a sitting Teachta Dála (member of parliament).
There are 43 multi-member electoral districts, known as Dáil constituencies, to elect 174 TDs to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, Ireland's parliament, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV), to a maximum term of five years.
The 26th Dáil met at Leinster House on 29 June to nominate the Taoiseach for appointment by the president and to approve the appointment of a new government of Ireland. No government was formed on that date, but on 12 July, Haughey was re-appointed Taoiseach, forming the 21st government of Ireland , a coalition government of Fianna Fáil and ...
Meath was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1937 and from 1948 to 2007. The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
It was the largest constituency in Ireland, electing 7 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil in 1921 and 1922, and 9 from 1923 to 1937.The constituency was created in 1921 as a 7-seat constituency, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 elections to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland.
Dáil Éireann (/ d ɑː l ˈ ɛər ən / ⓘ dahl AIR-ən, [3] Irish: [ˌd̪ˠaːlʲ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]; lit. ' Assembly of Ireland ') is the lower house and principal chamber of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the president of Ireland and a senate called Seanad Éireann. [4]
On 3 February 2020, following the death of independent candidate, Marese Skehan, the election in the Tipperary constituency was due to be postponed, with nominations to be re-opened. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] However, on 5 February the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government issued a Special Difficulty Order allowing the election to ...