Govt gets referendum ‘wallop’ as new budget cuts loom

Fine Gael leader and 26-County Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been humiliated after the rejection by voters of a dictatorial attempt to abolish the Seanad, the upper house of the Dublin parliament.

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