Honorific-Suffix: | TD |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | February 2016 |
Constituency: | Louth |
Birth Date: | 24 February 1968 |
Birth Place: | Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland |
Party: | Sinn Féin |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | Dublin Institute of Technology |
Imelda Munster (born 24 February 1968) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since the 2016 general election.[1]
She was elected to Louth County Council representing the Drogheda East local electoral area following the 2004 local elections and was re-elected in 2009 to both Drogheda Borough Council and Louth County Council.[2]
She successfully contested the Louth constituency at 2016 general election, receiving 8,829 first preference votes (13.1%)[3] [4] and was re-elected at the 2020 general election receiving 17,203 first preference votes (24.34%).[5]
On 1 December 2023, Munster announced she would not be contesting the next Irish general election.[6]
Munster lives with her husband Niall and two daughters in Melifont Park, Drogheda.