The 18th Seanad was in office from 1987 to 1989. An election to

Seanad Éireann Seanad Éireann ( ; ; "Senate of Ireland") is the senate of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (defined as the house of representatives). It is commonly called the Seanad or ...

, the

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of the

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(Irish parliament), followed the 1987 general election to the

25th Dáil The 25th Dáil was elected at the 1987 general election on 17 February 1987 and met on 10 March 1987. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature), of Ireland are known as TDs. It sat with the 18 ...

. The senators served until the close of poll for the

19th Seanad The 19th Seanad was in office from 1989 to 1993. An election to Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1989 general election to the 26th Dáil. The senators served until the close of poll for the 20th Sea ...

Cathaoirleach

On 25 April 1987, Tras Honan ( FF) was proposed as

Cathaoirleach Cathaoirleach (; Irish language, Irish for Chair (officer), chairperson; plural: ) is the title of the chair (or speaker (politics), presiding officer) of Seanad Éireann, the sixty-member upper house of the Oireachtas, the legislature of Repub ...

by Mick Lanigan (FF) and seconded by William Ryan (FF). She was elected without a division. On 20 May 1987, Charles McDonald ( FG) was proposed as Leas-Chathaoirleach by

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(FG) and seconded by

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(FG). He was elected without a division.

Composition of the 18th Seanad

There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 were elected on five

vocational panel A vocational panel () is any of five lists of candidates from which are elected a total of 43 of the 60 senators in Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of Ireland. Each panel corresponds to a grouping of "interests and ...

s, 6 were elected from two

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and 11 were

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. The following table shows the composition by party when the 18th Seanad first met on 25 April 1987.

Cathaoirleach

Composition of the 18th Seanad

List of senators

Changes

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