Seanad candidate expected full recount after she lost by one ninth of a vote, High Court hears

Labour's Angela Feeney was eliminated on the 23rd count by a margin of .116, missing out on the final seat to Fine Gael’s Maria Byrne

Angela Feeney, county councillor and member of the Labour Party’s central council told the High Court she wants a full recount of the recent Seanad agricultural panel election.

A former Seanad election candidate wants a full recount of the recent agricultural panel vote in the interest of fairness and transparency, the High Court has heard.

Angela Feeney, a member of the Labour Party’s central council and former head of Technological University Dublin’s school of languages, law and social sciences, has brought a High Court petition challenging the conduct of vote counting for the agricultural panel.