Denise Mitchell Explained
Denise Mitchell (born 22 November 1976) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency since the 2016 general election.[2]
She was a member of Dublin City Council from 2014 to 2016.[3] [4]
A well-known community activist locally, Mitchell is described as being close to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.[5] In 2016, she listed the campaign calling to Repeal the 8th amendment as a priority for her if elected to the Dáil.[6]
In the 2016 general election, she took the fourth of five seats in the newly created Dublin Bay North constituency.
In the 2020 general election, she received the single highest vote of any candidate in the State, securing 21,344 first-preference votes and being elected on the first count.[7] [8] [9]
Personal life
She is originally from Darndale. Mitchell joined Sinn Féin in the early 1990s. She worked in a locally-based knitwear factory, Shamrock Apparel, before also having careers with Motorola, Gateway 2000 and Brink's.[10]
In 2014, she came to prominence as a local leader of the Right2Water movement protesting against the imposition of domestic water charges in Ireland, and during a rally in Ayrfield Community Centre she said it was important that no political party try to take over the movement.[11]
She lives in Ayrfield, Coolock with her husband Alan and their three children.
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Tim Ryan. 2020. Nealon's Guide to the 33rd Dáil and 26th Seanad and the 2019 Local and European Elections. Grand Canal Publishing.
- Web site: Denise Mitchell. Oireachtas Members Database. 11 July 2019. 11 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190711235617/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Denise-Mitchell.D.2016-10-03. live.
- Web site: Denise Mitchell. ElectionsIreland.org. 11 July 2019. 22 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171222074314/https://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=9516. live.
- Web site: Election 2016: Denise Mitchell. RTÉ News. 1 March 2016. 1 March 2016. 6 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190606121810/https://www.rte.ie/news/election-2016/candidates/754489-denise-mitchell/. live.
- Web site: Election 2020: Denise Mitchell (Sinn Féin). TheJournal.ie. 28 June 2020.
- News: Una Mullally: Election result is not a victory for anti-abortion lobby. The Irish Times. 28 June 2020. 11 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170711113533/http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/una-mullally-election-result-is-not-a-victory-for-anti-abortion-lobby-1.2557019. live.
- Web site: Poll-toppers: the 10 candidates who secured the most first-preference votes in this year's election. TheJournal.ie. 28 June 2020. 3 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703160235/https://www.thejournal.ie/general-election-2020-candidates-most-votes-5001042-Feb2020/. live.
- News: Dublin Bay North results: Social Democrats, Labour, FF take final seats . 10 February 2020 . 9 February 2020 . Paul . Cullen . . Dublin . 5 June 2021 . live . https://archive.today/20210606065549/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-bay-north-results-social-democrats-labour-ff-take-final-seats-1.4165182 . 6 June 2021.
- News: Election 2020: Dublin Bay North . 10 February 2020 . . Dublin . 5 June 2021 . live . https://archive.today/20210606065538/https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/dublin-bay-north . 6 June 2021.
- Book: Brennan, Michael . 2019 . In Deep Water: How people, politics and protests sank Irish Water . Mercier Press . 35. 9781781176580.
- Book: Brennan, Michael . 2019 . In Deep Water: How people, politics and protests sank Irish Water . Mercier Press . 36. 9781781176580.
