Martin Austin Deasy was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Agriculture from 1982 to 1987. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 1977 to 2002. He was a Senator from 1973 to 1977,after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
Maurice Cummins is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Leader of the Seanad and Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad from 2011 to 2016. He was a Senator for Labour Panel from 2002 to 2016.
Brian O'Shea is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister of State at the Department of Health from 1994 to 1997 and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture,Food and the Marine from 1993 to 1994. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 1989 to 2011.
Deirdre Clune is an Irish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency from 2014 to 2019,and again from 2020 to 2024. She is a member of Fine Gael,part of the European People's Party.
Paudie Coffey is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2016. He served as a Senator from 2016 to 2020,after being nominated by the Taoiseach,and previously from 2007 to 2011 for the Industrial and Commercial Panel. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 2011 to 2016.
Phil Prendergast is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency from 2011 to 2014,Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad in 2011 and a Senator for the Labour Panel from 2007 to 2011.
Ned O'Sullivan is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from July 2007 to January 2025.
Denis Cregan is an Irish businessman and former Fine Gael politician from Cork,who served for 17 years as a senator.
Patrick Kennedy was a barrister and Fine Gael politician from Limerick city in Ireland.
Sean Conway was a Fianna Fáil politician from County Meath in Ireland. He was a senator from 1982 to 1983. He was a member of Meath County Council from 1963 to 1991.
Timothy Conway is an Irish former politician from Naas in County Kildare. An accountant and long-serving local councillor,he served for six years as a senator in the 1980s and later contested two general elections. In the course of his political career he switched party twice,moving from the Labour Party to the Progressive Democrats and then to Fine Gael.
Laurence O'Neill was an Irish politician and corn merchant who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1917 to 1924,serving through the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. He refused an offer to act as Crown Prosecutor after the Easter Rising. During the 1920 Irish hunger strikes,O'Neill actively supported the demands of the 36 hunger strikers in Mountjoy Prison.
William Kenneally was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He first stood for election at the 1961 general election but was unsuccessful. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency at the 1965 general election.
Shane Cassells is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from April 2020 to January 2025. He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath West constituency from 2016 to 2020.
Fintan Warfield is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who served as a senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from April 2016 to January 2025.
Lorraine Clifford-Lee is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Senator from June 2020 to January 2025.
John McGahon is an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from June 2020 until January 2025.
John Cummins is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency since the 2024 general election. He previously served as a Senator on the Labour Panel from 2020 to 2024.
Rebecca Moynihan is an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Senator for the Administrative Panel from April 2020 to January 2025.
Shane Curley is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel since January 2025.
