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Tue 07 Jul 2007Labour-SF pact gives Seanad seat to WhiteLabour Party candidate Alex White is the first person to be elected to the new Seanad as a result of a voting pact between his party and Sinn Féin, write  Stephen Collinsand Michael O'Regan.The Labour gain came at the expense of Fine Gael rather than Fianna Fáil, and indicates that the Government may not be under as much pressure to retain its majority in the Seanad as had been widely forecast.