Kildare NUI Graduates encouraged to claim their vote in Seanad Éireann elections before next week

By Kim O'Leary

Kildare graduates from Maynooth University and other institutions are being reminded to take the time to claim their vote for the Seanad Eireann elections before the registration deadline next Monday, 26 February.

Senator Alice-Mary Higgins is calling on all NUI Graduates who are Irish citizens and thus entitled to vote in Seanad Éireann to first claim their vote by downloading the voter registration form from www.nui.ie or phoning the NUI on 01 439 2424 to request a form.

Completed forms must be scanned and emailed to [email protected] or posted back to NUI’s head office in Merrion Square by next Monday 26 February 2018.

NUI graduates who are living overseas are also entitled to claim their vote and can vote in future Seanad elections from abroad through a postal vote.

Independent Senator Alice-Mary Higgins, who was elected to the NUI panel in Seanad Éireann in 2016, said ‘on the centenary of Irish women winning the right to vote, I will continue to work for equality and democracy.  I am committed to pressing for Seanad reform so that all Irish citizens will be entitled to vote in future Seanad elections. Whilst the Seanad reform process is underway, I encourage all NUI graduates to claim and exercise their right to vote in Seanad Éireann elections.”

Graduates from the following institutions with a degree or higher qualification are recognised NUI as graduates: University College Dublin, University College Cork, NUI Galway, Maynooth University. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, National College of Art and Design, Shannon College of Hotel Management, Institute of Public Administration, St Angela’s College Sligo, Burren College of Art.