Voters will reject bid to abolish Seanad: Mara

Voters will reject Enda Kenny’s bid to abolish the Seanad and will give the Government a “kick in the arse” in October’s referendum, according to ex-government spin doctor PJ Mara.

The former Fianna Fáil elections strategist claims many Oireachtas members in the Coalition parties he has spoken to do not want to close the Upper House.

PJ Mara was a senator under two different governments in 1981 and 1982.