Catherine Martin (politician)
Catherine Martin | |
|---|---|
 Martin in 2016 | |
| Deputy Leader of the Green Party | |
| Assumed office 11 June 2011 | |
| Leader | Eamon Ryan |
| Preceded by | Mary White |
| Teachta Dála | |
| Assumed office February 2016 | |
| Constituency | Dublin Rathdown |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 December 1972 Monaghan, County Monaghan, Ireland |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Spouse | Francis Noel Duffy (m. 2002) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Website | catherinemartin |
Catherine Martin (born 7 December 1972) is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as Deputy Leader of the Green Party since June 2011. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency since 2016.[1]
Personal life
She was a teacher of English and Music, and the head of the Green Schools Committee at St. Tiernan's Community School in Dundrum for 15 years prior to being elected to the Dáil.[2] She is married to Francis Noel Duffy,[3] also a Green Party TD and they have three children.[4] Her brother Vincent P. Martin is also a member of the Green Party and is a Kildare County Councillor since the 2019 Kildare County Council election, representing the Naas local electoral area. In the 2020 Irish general election, he ran as a candidate in Kildare North, but was not elected.[5]
Political career
She joined the Green Party in 2007, and was elected as Deputy Leader of the Green Party in 2011. In 2014, she was elected to Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council,[3] and was elected to the Dáil in the 2016 general election, after receiving 4,122 first preference votes.[6][6]
She is the Green Party's Education Spokesperson.[2] Martin was elected the first chair of The Irish Women's Parliamentary Caucus in November 2017.[7] In May 2020, following nominations from several councillors, she said that she would give 'serious consideration' into running for leadership of the Green Party.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Catherine Martin". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Catherine Martin". Green Partye. 22 October 2016.
- ^ a b "About Catherine". Catherinemartin.ie. 22 October 2016.
- ^ "Francis Noel Duffy". Green Party. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ Horgan-Jones, Jack (18 January 2020). "Election 2020: Kildare North constituency profile". Irish Times. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
Martin is a brother to Green Party deputy leader Catherine Martin, and topped the poll in Naas while two other Greens were elected in Maynooth and Celbridge.
- ^ a b "Catherine Martin". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ "Catherine Martin elected". Green Party. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Newstalk. "Catherine Martin to give 'serious consideration' to contesting Green Party leadership". Newstalk. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
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