Máire Devine
Máire Devine | |
|---|---|
 Devine in 2015 | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| Assumed office November 2024 | |
| Constituency | Dublin South-Central |
| Senator | |
| In office 8 June 2016 – 29 June 2020 | |
| Constituency | Labour Panel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 October 1972 (age 52) The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Spouse | Kevin Devine |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Dublin Institute of Technology |
| Website | mairedevinesinnfein |
Máire Devine (born 22 October 1972)[1][2] is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin South-Central since November 2024. She previously served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from June 2016 to June 2020.[3][4]
Early and personal life
[edit]Devine was born in The Liberties to a family of republicans involved in campaigns around the 1981 Irish hunger strike. She is married to Kevin Devine; they have three children.[5] She worked as a psychiatric nurse[6][7] while a councillor and was a long-term trade union activist.[8]
Political career
[edit]Devine was co-opted onto South Dublin County Council in 2011, representing Tallaght Central. She was re-elected in 2014.[9]
She stood unsuccessfully in Dublin South-Central at the 2016 general election, but was later elected to the 25th Seanad on the Labour Panel.[10]
In 2018, she was suspended from Sinn Féin for three months after retweeting a parody Twitter account that referred to Irish Prison Service officer Brian Stack (fatally shot by the IRA in 1983) as a "sadist."[11] She lost her seat at the 2020 Seanad election.
In October 2020 she was co-opted to Dublin City Council representing the South West Inner City to replace Críona Ní Dhálaigh who resigned from her seat the previous month.
She was returned to the council in the 2024 local elections. Later in the same year, she was added to Sinn Féin's ticket in Dublin South-Central alongside Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Daithí Doolan.[12]
At the 2024 general election, Devine was elected to the Dáil on the 14th and final count.
References
[edit]- ^ Devine, Seanadóir Máire (22 October 2013). "1913 commemorative coin. A treasured birthday gift. TY maureen.pic.twitter.com/ysZAUrh8Rg".
- ^ Devine, Seanadóir Máire (22 October 2016). "Jack Crowe Walk- somebody has a birthday today! pic.twitter.com/Al8N1WTNZy".
- ^ "Máire Devine". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ "Quarter of senate seats filled". RTÉ News. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "About Máire Devine". mairedevinesinnfein.wordpress.com. 16 November 2012.
- ^ "Councillor Máire Devine". St James's Hospital.
- ^ "Máire Devine - Sinn Féin".
- ^ "Máire Devine". sinnfein.ie. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ "Máire Devine". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ "Senator Máire Devine 'to be an advocate for nurses and mental health services'". sinnfein.ie. 26 April 2016.
- ^ Brophy, Daragh (19 March 2018). "Mary Lou says senator who retweeted post calling IRA victim a 'sadist' made 'catastrophic error'". TheJournal.ie.
- ^ Finnerty, Mike (11 November 2024). "Sinn Féin adds Doolan to Dublin South Central ticket". dublinpeople.com. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
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External links
[edit]- 1972 births
- Living people
- Sinn Féin senators
- Members of the 25th Seanad
- 21st-century women members of Seanad Éireann
- Politicians from Dublin (city)
- Members of South Dublin County Council
- Members of Dublin City Council
- Sinn Féin candidates in Dáil elections (post-1923)
- Sinn Féin local councillors in the Republic of Ireland
- Labour Panel senators
- Members of the 34th Dáil
- Sinn Féin TDs (post-1923)