LIVE: Opening of the Dail and the first ever fully independent Ceann Comhairle…
So today, the new Dail returns. Unlike its predecessors, it will start off business by electing it’s speaker or Ceann Comhairle (CC) firstly by secret PR STV ballot. Given the low numbers granted to all parties and not it will be hard to game in the usual ways. The radical shift here is getting the CC elected by the parliament before the new government. If you look back through history the party of the CC almost always matches the party …