Emer Currie
Emer Currie | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Currie in 2024 | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| Assumed office November 2024 | |
| Constituency | Dublin West |
| Senator | |
| In office 29 June 2020 – 30 November 2024 | |
| Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 May 1979 County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
| Party | Fine Gael |
| Spouse | Malcolm Craig |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent |
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| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
Emer Currie (born 1 May 1979)[1][2] is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since the 2024 general election. She previously served as a Senator from 2020 to 2024, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.[3][4]
She previously served as a member of Fingal County Council from 2019 to 2020.[5][6]
Currie was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 general election as the Fine Gael running mate of outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin West.[7][8] She was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 Seanad election but was later nominated by the Taoiseach.[6]
Her father, Austin Currie, was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland as well as a former Minister of State and TD in the Republic of Ireland.[9]
She was elected to the Dáil for the Dublin West constituency at the 2024 general election. On 29 January 2025 she was appointed Deputy Government Whip. Mary Butler is the Government Chief Whip.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "'We intend on being prepared for election' - daughter of former Fine Gael minister selected as Varadkar's running mate". independent.ie. The Independent. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ Emer Currie (1 May 2023). "Here it is! And released on my birthday too. When I was asked to do a TedTalk in Stormont of all places, there was only one thing I could talk about…a man who changed it forever". Archived from the original on 9 June 2023 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Emer Currie". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces his 11 Seanad nominees". thejournal.ie. The Journal. 27 June 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Emer Currie Dublin West". Fine Gael. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Emer Currie". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ O'Halloran, Marie (10 February 2020). "Dublin West results: Joan Burton and Ruth Coppinger lose seats". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Election 2020: Dublin West". The Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "'We intend on being prepared for election' - daughter of former Fine Gael minister selected as Varadkar's running mate". independent.ie. The Independent. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ FUSIO; Office, Fine Gael Press (29 January 2025). "Tánaiste appoints Emer Currie TD Deputy Government Whip". Fine Gael. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
External links
[edit]- 1979 births
- Living people
- Fine Gael senators
- Members of the 26th Seanad
- Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
- Politicians from County Tyrone
- 21st-century women members of Seanad Éireann
- Fine Gael TDs
- Fine Gael local councillors
- Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
- Members of the 34th Dáil
- 21st-century women Teachtaí Dála