Bacik and Mullen poised to battle it out in Seanad

DEVOUT liberal Ivana Bacik and stanch conservative Ronan Mullen were last night poised to go head to head when the Seanad count resumes.

Trinity College’ Dublin’s Reid professor of law Ivana Bacik was elected on the eighth count with a comfortable lead of 2,402 votes on her nearest rival Dr Maurice Gueret.

She joins sitting senators David Norris and Shane Ross who were both elected to the three-seat TCD panel on Tuesday.