More hype than hope in Sinn Féin’s speaking rights campaign

I SAT in Seanad Éireann for an hour one afternoon in September last year. I didn’t become a member of the Seanad or win any elections, or anything like that.

I was simply giving evidence to a committee of senators about a submission I had made about an alternative electoral system.

As it happens their committee sat that day in the Seanad chamber itself, and so I actually got to sit in a seat usually occupied by a senator.