Sinn Féin‘s Fintan Warfield, who became the mayor of South Dublin at 22 in 2014, was elected to the Seanad on the first count and with 200 papers for 200,000 votes, he was safely above the 187,167 quota.
Speaking after his election, Warfield said that being elected in the same year as the Easter Rising, brings an added significance to the honour.
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