Newly elected senator Mairia Cahill to meet rape victim support groups

Mairia Cahill has promised to meet with rape victim support groups in one of her first acts as a senator.

The Labour candidate won 122 of the 188 valid votes cast in the by-election, in which only TDs and senators could vote.

Labour Party leader and Tánaiste Joan Burton yesterday hit out at “online warriors” who, she said, had subjected Ms Cahill to the “most incredible level of abuse” in recent times.