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Irish politician (born 1972)

Máire DevineTD
Devine in 2015
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 2024
ConstituencyDublin South-Central
Senator
In office
8 June 2016 – 29 June 2020
ConstituencyLabour Panel
Dublin City Councillor
In office
October 2020 – November 2024
ConstituencySouth West Inner City
Personal details
Born (1972-10-22) 22 October 1972 (age 52)
The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland
Political partySinn Féin
SpouseKevin Devine
Children3
Alma materDublin Institute of Technology
Websitemairedevinesinnfein.wordpress.com

Máire Devine (born 22 October 1972) 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.

Early and personal life

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. She worked as a psychiatric nurse while a councillor and was a long-term trade union activist.

Political career

Devine was co-opted onto South Dublin County Council in 2011, representing Tallaght Central. She was re-elected in 2014.

She stood unsuccessfully in Dublin South-Central at the 2016 general election, but was later elected to the 25th Seanad on the Labour Panel.

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 Provisional IRA in 1983) as a "sadist." 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.

At the 2024 general election, Devine was elected to the Dáil on the 15th and final count.

References

  1. Devine, Máire (22 October 2013). "1913 commemorative coin. A treasured birthday gift. TY maureen". Twitter. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  2. Devine, Máire (22 October 2016). "Jack Crowe Walk- somebody has a birthday today!". Twitter. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  3. "Máire Devine". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  4. "Quarter of senate seats filled". RTÉ News. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  5. "About Máire Devine". mairedevinesinnfein.wordpress.com. 16 November 2012.
  6. "Councillor Máire Devine". St. James's Hospital. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  7. "Máire Devine - Sinn Féin". Sinn Féin. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  8. "Máire Devine". Sinn Féin. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  9. "Máire Devine". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  10. Devine, Máire (26 April 2016). "Senator Máire Devine 'to be an advocate for nurses and mental health services'". Sinn Féin. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  11. Brophy, Daragh (19 March 2018). "Mary Lou says senator who retweeted post calling IRA victim a 'sadist' made 'catastrophic error'". The Journal. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  12. Doyle, Maggie (3 April 2020). "Final seats filled in Seanad election count". RTÉ News. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  13. "Monthly City Council Meeting Monday 5 October 2020" (PDF). Dublin City Council. 5 October 2020. p. 5. Retrieved 28 December 2024. It was proposed by Councillor Daithí Doolan and seconded by Councillor Janice Boylan "That Ms. Máire Devine be co-opted to replace former Councillor Críona Ní Dhálaigh who had resigned from Dublin City Council." The motion was put and carried.
  14. O'Riordan, Ellen (11 May 2021). "Sinn Féin councillor apologises for 'untrue' comment over FG representative". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  15. Finnerty, Mike (11 November 2024). "Sinn Féin adds Doolan to Dublin South Central ticket". dublinpeople.com. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  16. Cassidy, Luke (2 December 2024). "Election 2024: Dublin South-Central results". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  17. "We now have our full slate of TDs for the 34th Dáil - here's who has been elected". The Journal. 30 November 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.

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Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for the Dublin South-Central constituency
This table is transcluded from Dublin South-Central (Dáil constituency). (edit | history)
Dáil Election Deputy
(Party)		 Deputy
(Party)		 Deputy
(Party)		 Deputy
(Party)		 Deputy
(Party)
13th 1948 Seán Lemass
(FF) 		James Larkin Jnr
(Lab) 		Con Lehane
(CnaP) 		Maurice E. Dockrell
(FG) 		John McCann
(FF)
14th 1951 Philip Brady
(FF)
15th 1954 Thomas Finlay
(FG) 		Celia Lynch
(FF)
16th 1957 Jack Murphy
(Ind) 		Philip Brady
(FF)
1958 by-election Patrick Cummins
(FF)
17th 1961 Joseph Barron
(CnaP)
18th 1965 Frank Cluskey
(Lab) 		Thomas J. Fitzpatrick
(FF)
19th 1969 Richie Ryan
(FG) 		Ben Briscoe
(FF) 		John O'Donovan
(Lab) 		4 seats
1969–1977
20th 1973 John Kelly
(FG)
21st 1977 Fergus O'Brien
(FG) 		Frank Cluskey
(Lab) 		Thomas J. Fitzpatrick
(FF) 		3 seats
1977–1981
22nd 1981 Ben Briscoe
(FF) 		Gay Mitchell
(FG) 		John O'Connell
(Ind)
23rd 1982 (Feb) Frank Cluskey
(Lab)
24th 1982 (Nov) Fergus O'Brien
(FG)
25th 1987 Mary Mooney
(FF)
26th 1989 John O'Connell
(FF) 		Eric Byrne
(WP)
27th 1992 Pat Upton
(Lab) 		4 seats
1992–2002
1994 by-election Eric Byrne
(DL)
28th 1997 Seán Ardagh
(FF)
1999 by-election Mary Upton
(Lab)
29th 2002 Aengus Ó Snodaigh
(SF) 		Michael Mulcahy
(FF)
30th 2007 Catherine Byrne
(FG)
31st 2011 Eric Byrne
(Lab) 		Joan Collins
(PBP) 		Michael Conaghan
(Lab)
32nd 2016 Bríd Smith
(AAA–PBP) 		Joan Collins
(I4C) 		4 seats
from 2016
33rd 2020 Bríd Smith
(S–PBP) 		Patrick Costello
(GP)
34th 2024 Catherine Ardagh
(FF) 		Máire Devine
(SF) 		Jen Cummins
(SD)
  1. O'Connell served as Ceann Comhairle in the 22nd and 23rd Dáil from 1981 to 1983 and was returned automatically at the February 1982 and November 1982 general elections. He joined Fianna Fáil in January 1985.
  2. Founded Right to Change in May 2020.
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