Mary C Murphy says while earlier Seanad reform proposals never saw the light of day. This Government has a chance to challenge that pattern of rejection.

Sinead O’Connor has fanned the flames of a silent revolution in her advocacy of a Second Irish Republic. She has brought attention to the Constitution’s inadequacies and its many amendments.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has accused Enda Kenny of in the “worst form of populism” by trying to abolish the Seanad without public debate.

We, the undersigned, call on the Government to establish a constitutional convention that is capable of fulfilling the Programme for Government’s commitment to “a real shift in power from the State to the citizen”.