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Máire Devine
Dublin City Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office
October 2020
ConstituencySouth West Inner City
Senator
In office
8 June 2016 – 29 June 2020
ConstituencyLabour Panel
Personal details
Born22 October 1972 (1972-10-22) (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)[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 June 2016 to June 2020.[3][4]

Early life

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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

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

Career

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Devine, Seanadóir Máire (22 October 2013). "1913 commemorative coin. A treasured birthday gift. TY maureen.pic.twitter.com/ysZAUrh8Rg".
  2. ^ Devine, Seanadóir Máire (22 October 2016). "Jack Crowe Walk- somebody has a birthday today! pic.twitter.com/Al8N1WTNZy".
  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. ^ "Councillor Máire Devine". St James's Hospital.
  6. ^ "Máire Devine - Sinn Féin".
  7. ^ "Máire Devine". sinnfein.ie. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  8. ^ "About Máire Devine". mairedevinesinnfein.wordpress.com. 16 November 2012.
  9. ^ "Máire Devine". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  10. ^ "Senator Máire Devine 'to be an advocate for nurses and mental health services'". sinnfein.ie. 26 April 2016.
  11. ^ Brophy, Daragh (19 March 2018). "Mary Lou says senator who retweeted post calling IRA victim a 'sadist' made 'catastrophic error'". TheJournal.ie.
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