Máire Devine Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Cllr
Máire Devine
Office:Dublin City Councillor
Term Start:October 2020
Constituency:South West Inner City
Office1:Senator
Term Start1:27 April 2016
Term End1:27 March 2020
Constituency1:Labour Panel
Birth Place:The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland
Nationality:Irish
Party:Sinn Féin
Spouse:Kevin Devine
Children:3
Alma Mater:Dublin Institute of Technology

Máire Devine (born 22 October 1972)[1] [2] is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as a Dublin City Councillor since October 2020. She previously served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from April 2016 to March 2020.[3] [4]

Early life

Devine was born in The Liberties to a republican family and involved in campaigns around the 1981 Irish hunger strike. She works as a psychiatric nurse[5] [6] and was a long-term trade union activist.[7]

Personal life

She is married to Kevin Devine; they have three children.[8]

Career

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1913 commemorative coin. A treasured birthday gift. TY maureen.pic.twitter.com/ysZAUrh8Rg. Seanadóir Máire. Devine. October 22, 2013.
  2. Web site: Jack Crowe Walk- somebody has a birthday today! pic.twitter.com/Al8N1WTNZy. Seanadóir Máire. Devine. October 22, 2016.
  3. Web site: Máire Devine. Oireachtas Members Database. 4 August 2019.
  4. Web site: Quarter of senate seats filled. RTÉ News. 26 April 2016. 26 April 2016.
  5. Web site: Councillor Máire Devine. St James's Hospital.
  6. Web site: Máire Devine - Sinn Féin.
  7. Web site: Máire Devine. sinnfein.ie. 4 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190530161440/https://www.sinnfein.ie/maire-devine-3 . 2019-05-30.
  8. Web site: About Máire Devine. 16 November 2012. mairedevinesinnfein.wordpress.com.
  9. Web site: Máire Devine. ElectionsIreland.org. 4 August 2019.
  10. Web site: Senator Máire Devine 'to be an advocate for nurses and mental health services'. sinnfein.ie. 26 April 2016.
  11. Web site: Mary Lou says senator who retweeted post calling IRA victim a 'sadist' made 'catastrophic error'. TheJournal.ie. Daragh. Brophy. 19 March 2018.