Ivana Bacik to swap Seanad for Dáil after by-election victory
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Ivana Bacik
Barrister and legal academic Ivana Bacik will leave the Seanad for the Dáil after winning last week’s Dublin Bay South by-election.
A senator since 2007, Ms Bacik topped the poll in Thursday’s by-election as the candidate for the Labour Party, winning 8,131 first-preference votes (30.2 per cent of the total) and being elected on the ninth count.
She bested a number of legal rivals, including Fine Gael candidate James Geoghegan, the son of two retired Supreme Court judges, Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan and Mrs Justice Finlay Geoghegan.
Mr Geoghegan won 7,052 votes (26.2 per cent) and was the last to be eliminated in a constituency widely regarded as a Fine Gael stronghold.
Meanwhile, barrister Deirdre Conroy, standing for Fianna Fáil, came in fifth place with just 1,247 votes (4.6 per cent).
Ms Bacik indicated ahead of the by-election that she would resign her post as Reid professor of criminal law, criminology and penology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) if she were to be elected to the Dáil.
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