Denise Mitchell
Denise Mitchell | |
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Mitchell in 2020 | |
Teachta Dála | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office February 2016 | |
Constituency | Dublin Bay North |
Personal details | |
Born | (1976-11-22) 22 November 1976 (age 47)[1] Coolock, Dublin, Ireland |
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Spouse | Alan Mitchell (m. 2007) |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | Dublin Institute of Technology |
Denise Mitchell (born 22 November 1976) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency since the 2016 general election.[2]
She was a member of Dublin City Council from 2014 to 2016.[3][4]
A well-known community activist locally, Mitchell is described as being close to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.[5] In 2016, she listed the campaign calling to Repeal the 8th amendment as a priority for her if elected to the Dáil.[6]
In the 2016 general election, she took the fourth of five seats in the newly-created Dublin Bay North constituency.
In the 2020 general election, she received the single highest vote of any candidate in the State, securing 21,344 first-preference votes and being elected on the first count.[7][8][9]
Personal life
She is originally from Darndale. Mitchell joined Sinn Féin in the early 1990s. She worked in a locally-based knitwear factory, Shamrock Apparel, before also having careers with Motorola, Gateway 2000 and Brink's.[10]
In 2014, she came to prominence as a local leader of the Right2Water movement protesting against the imposition of domestic water charges in Ireland, and during a rally in Ayrfield Community Centre she said it was important that no political party try to take over the movement.[11]
She lives in Ayrfield, Coolock with her husband Alan and their three children.
References
- ^ Tim Ryan (2020). Nealon's Guide to the 33rd Dáil and 26th Seanad and the 2019 Local and European Elections. Grand Canal Publishing.
- ^ "Denise Mitchell". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Denise Mitchell". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Election 2016: Denise Mitchell". RTÉ News. 1 March 2016. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ "Election 2020: Denise Mitchell (Sinn Féin)". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Una Mullally: Election result is not a victory for anti-abortion lobby". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Poll-toppers: the 10 candidates who secured the most first-preference votes in this year's election". TheJournal.ie. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ Cullen, Paul (10 February 2020) [9 February 2020]. "Dublin Bay North results: Social Democrats, Labour, FF take final seats". Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Election 2020: Dublin Bay North". Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ Brennan, Michael (2019). In Deep Water: How people, politics and protests sank Irish Water. Mercier Press. p. 35. ISBN 9781781176580.
- ^ Brennan, Michael (2019). In Deep Water: How people, politics and protests sank Irish Water. Mercier Press. p. 36. ISBN 9781781176580.
External links
- Denise Mitchell's page on the Sinn Féin website
- Media related to Denise Mitchell at Wikimedia Commons
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