Former rugby player Hugo MacNeill enters Seanad race

Hugo MacNeill, who is married to Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, played 37 times for Ireland 

Hugo MacNeill, who has entered the Seanad race. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

Former Ireland rugby international Hugo MacNeill is to run as an independent candidate in the Trinity College Dublin Seanad by-election.

Mr MacNeill, who is married to sitting Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, joins a number of other candidates hoping to take the seat vacated by Labour's Ivana Bacik after her victory in the Dublin Bay South Dáil by-election last year.