There are quite a few (exclusively) men calling for @saoirse_mchugh to never run for election again because the 'public has rejected her'

I think they may have a point, here are a few other people who were 'rejected by the public' and never heard from again

Michael D. Higgins - Rejected by the public in 1969, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984

Charlie Haughey - 1951, 1954, 1956

Leo Varadkar - 1999

Mary Lou McDonald - 2002, 2007, 2009

Bríd Smith - 1997, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2014

Ivana Bacik - 2004, 2009, 2011

Catherine Murphy - 1989 (Dáil and Euro), 1992, 1997, 2007

Richard Boyd Barrett 2002, 2004, 2007

Roderic O'Gorman - 2004, 2007, 2009, 2022, x2, 2014, 2016

Brendan Howlin - 1982

Eamon Ryan - 2011, 2014

Paschal Donohoe - 2007, 2009

Micheál Martin - 1987

Gary Gannon 2016, 2019

Eamon Gilmore - 1982, 1987

Grace O'Sullivan - 2014, 2016

Eoin Ó Broin - 2007, 2009, 2011

Joan Burton - 1989, 1997

Mary Harney - 1977, 1989

Éamon Ó Cuív - 1987, 1989

Ciarán Cuffe - 1997, 2011

Clare Daly - 1997, 1998, 2002, 2007

Luke 'Ming' Flanagan - 1997, 1999, 2002

Can you think of a single thing of note anyone on this list did after they didn't win an election?