Máire Devine (born 22 October 1972) is an Irish
Sinn Féin politician who has served as a
Dublin City Councillor since October 2020. She previously served as a
Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
for the
Labour Panel from April 2016 to March 2020.
Early life
Devine was born in
The Liberties
The Liberties ( Irish: ''Na Saoirsí'' or occasionally ''Na Libirtí'') is an area in central Dublin, Ireland, located in the southwest of the inner city. Formed from various areas of special manorial jurisdiction, separate from the main ci ...
to a
republican family and involved in campaigns around the
1981 Irish hunger strike
The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republicanism, Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government ...
. She worked as a
psychiatric nurse in England and was a long-term
trade union activist.
Personal life
She is married to Kevin Devine; they have three children.
Career
Devine was co-opted onto
South Dublin County Council in 2011, representing
Tallaght Central. She was re-elected in
2014
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.
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 IRA in 1983) as a "
sadist
Sadist refers to:
* A person with sadistic personality disorder, an obsolete term for individuals who derive pleasure from the suffering of others
Sadist may also refer to:
Sexual practices
*BDSM, one who engages in the erotic (sexual) practices ...
."
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
Críona Ní Dhálaigh (born 11 February 1962) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2015 to 2016. She was a Dublin City Councillor from March 2006 to September 2020.
She was co-opted onto Dublin City Council i ...
who resigned from her seat the previous month.
References
External links
Máire Devine's page on the Sinn Féin website
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1972 births
Living people
Sinn Féin senators
Members of the 25th Seanad
21st-century women members of Seanad Éireann
Politicians from Dublin (city)
Members of South Dublin County Council
Members of Dublin City Council
Sinn Féin candidates in Dáil elections (post-1923)
Sinn Féin local councillors in the Republic of Ireland
Labour Panel senators