Complex sentence: Unusually for a Senator, she was the Labour Party's front-bench spokesperson on Childcare from 2003--2007 and was the Whip of the Labour Group in Seanad Éireann.
Split into simpler sentences: Unusually for a Senator, she was the Labour Party's front-bench spokesperson on Childcare from 2003--2007. She and was the Whip of the Labour Group in Seanad Éireann.