Election 2020: Joe O’Brien (Green Party)

Dublin Fingal – Elected 8th count

Joe O’Brien. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times
Joe O’Brien. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

This is the third election victory in less than a year for Skerries-based politician Joe O’Brien (42).

Elected to Fingal County Countil in last May’s local election, in November he was elected to the Dáil in the by-election following Independent TD Clare Daly’s election to the European Parliament.

Viewed as calm, reserved, hard-working and thorough, one colleague described him as “not a man to pick up a megaphone to deal with a challenge”.

Originally from Co Cork he is a University Collgee Cork graduate of French and economics and worked for the Youthreach programme for early school leavers, before moving to Dublin to study for a master’s degree.

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Married with three children, he worked for the Immigrant Council of Ireland for three years before his Dáil election and previously worked for more than a decade at Crosscare, the social-care agency of the Dublin Catholic archdiocese and one of the biggest providers of services to the homeless in Dublin city.

Marie O'Halloran

Marie O'Halloran

Marie O'Halloran is Parliamentary Correspondent of The Irish Times