Mairia Cahill has won the Seanad by-election, winning 122 out of 188 valid votes.

Mairia Cahill is set to be elected to the Seanad today.

Joan Burton has defended Labour's Seanad by-election candidate Mairia Cahill for declining to take part in public debates.

Seanad hopeful Máiría Cahill has contacted Government members of the Seanad to quell fears over recent controversy surrounding her past and to say she has always sought to “rise above these claims”.

The sister of murder victim Robert McCartney has called on Labour to reflect on the decision to nominate Máiría Cahill to a vacant Seanad position

The longest-serving member of the Seanad has criticised Mairia Cahill for not taking part in public debates alongside her election opponents.

Fianna Fáil has nominated a GP to contest the Seanad bye-election against Maíria Cahill.

Labour Seanad candidate Mairia Cahill has said she will campaign for rape victims and the need for support services if she wins an upcoming by-election in the Seanad.

Mairia Cahill has been confirmed as Labour's candidate to contest the Seanad by-election.

Maíria Cahill has said her election to the Seanad isn't a done deal.

More than £110,000 was spent on the halted prosecution of an alleged IRA man over child sex abuse claims and related cases, Northern Ireland's justice minister said.

Rape victim Mairia Cahill has urged Sinn Féin to clarify whether four people linked to the party were prepared to defend her attacker if the charges went to trial, after the issue was flagged in an independent review of the case.

The north’s Director of Public Prosecutions has apologised to three women who accused an alleged IRA member of abusing them as children, after a damning report criticised how his prosecution was handled.

The North’s director of public prosecutions has apologised to three woman who accused an alleged IRA member of allegedly abusing them as children after a damning report criticised how his prosecution was handled.

A review of how the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) handled three cases linked to an alleged rape and IRA cover-up will be published after the British General Election.

Mairia Cahill said she has been contacted by another victim of abuse.

DURING the turbulent election campaign of 2011 I wrote about the possibility of Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness being elected as the President of Ireland, writes Alison O’Connor

A Stormont minister who has acknowledged she did not report allegations an IRA man abused a teenage girl has faced Assembly calls to resign.