David Norris, known affectionately as the ‘Father of the Seanad’, has become the longest serving Senator in Ireland today, March 16.
A former university lecturer, he began his political career in 1987, when he became a member of the Seanad Éireann, and thus, the first-ever openly gay person to be elected to office in the […] The post David Norris makes history as longest serving Senator in Ireland appeared first on GCN.