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Maura Healey: The first openly gay female US state governor will visit the Seanad next month. Picture: Getty

Seanad gets celeb visitor

Maura Healey, the first openly gay female US state governor, will be the latest celebrity visitor to the Seanad when she arrives from Massachusetts next month.

She joins horse-backer Bertie Ahern, European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness and GAA prez Larry McCarthy as recent invitees to the upper house – a line-up that won’t have Patrick Kielty quaking in his boots.

Unlike most Irish-Americans returning to the auld sod, Healey won’t have to ...