Disability rights campaigner Ms Kathy Sinnott has been ratified as a candidate on the Labour panel for the forthcoming Seanad elections, following an adjudication on the matter yesterday.

Ms Sinnott failed by six votes to win a seat in Cork South Central in the general election. She was nominated to the Labour panel by Independent TDs Ms Marian Harkin, Mr Finian McGrath, Mr Seamus Healy and Dr Jerry Cowley, but her qualifications to contest that panel were challenged.

A High Court judge found in her favour.