It's hoped that more women will continue to put their names on the electoral ballot paper.
That's after two candidates from the north west were some of the 20 successful female candidates who were elected to the Seanad over the weekend.
Independent Eileen Flynn will enter her second term in the upper house while Labour's Nessa Cosgrove was successful in her first Seanad election.
Mairead O'Shea of See Her Elected says there's a lot to be enthused by:
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