Róisín Garvey (born 5 July 1973) is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as a Senator since June 2020, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.[2][3]
Róisín Garvey | |
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.jpg) Garvey in 2023 | |
| Senator | |
| Assumed office 29 June 2020 | |
| Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 July 1973[1] County Clare, Ireland |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | NUI Galway |
Early life edit
Garvey grew up in Inagh and attended Coláiste Muire, Ennis and NUI Galway.[4] Her father, Flan Garvey, was a Fianna Fáil member of Clare County Council between 1985 and 2009. Garvey formerly worked for An Taisce.[5]
Political career edit
She previously served as a member of Clare County Council from 2019 to 2020.[6]
Garvey was an unsuccessful Green Party candidate in the 2020 general election for the Clare constituency. A fluent Irish speaker, she represented the Greens on the Irish-language TV debate on TG4 prior to that election.[7]
On 24 March 2021, Garvey was one of three Green Party senators to table a motion of no confidence against party chairperson Hazel Chu, after Chu announced her candidacy in a Seanad bye-election as an independent.[8]
In 2022, she opposed plans for an eight wind-turbine wind farm in County Clare. She said, "There are a lot of people locally who don't want it there because they already have enough of wind-turbines in the area... I have never been out demanding wind farms in my life and I don't intend to start now".[9]
Personal life edit
She has one son.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b McMahon, Páraic (7 February 2020). "'I'm one of the strongest rural candidates the Greens have had' – Garvey". Clare Echo. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ "Róisín Garvey". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces his 11 Seanad nominees". thejournal.ie. The Journal. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ McMahon, Páraic (20 November 2018). "Garvey hoping to follow in her father's footsteps". Archived from the original on 26 February 2021.
- ^ Kolås, Robin Munkvold and Line (18 September 2015). ECGBL2015-9th European Conference on Games Based Learning: ECGBL2015. Academic Conferences and publishing limited. ISBN 9781910810583 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Ennistymon Electoral Area Elected Members". Clare County Council. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Donegal TD to take part in TG4 election debate". Donegal Live.
- ^ McQuinn, Cormac (25 March 2021). "Eamon Ryan 'tells Greens' no pact on supporting Coalition candidates for Seanad". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "Green Party Senator objects to wind farm overlooking Wild Atlantic Way". BreakingNews.ie. 18 January 2022.