This article first appeared on Galway Bay FM
Counting is underway in the Seanad election for the vocational panels, with 13 Galway names in the mix.
Earlier today in another strand of the Seanad election Rónán Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins were returned to the senate
They contested the National University of Ireland panel, where Independent Senator Michael McDowell was the first person elected to the new Seanad after topping the poll just after midnight.
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