This year is a memorable one for Ciaran Ahern.
He was elected as a councillor in May for South Dublin County Council and now as the new Labour TD for Dublin South West. In between he turned 40 in September. His general election victory was at the expense of Green Party TD Noel Francis Duffy.
Ahern was born and raised in Rathfarnham and is a labour lawyer by profession. He is an employment solicitor in the firm McGuinness Dunne Murphy.
He is the chairman of Ballyroan National School and the chairman of the Rathfarnham Concert Band. He organises the Knocklyon Goal mile and he is one of the co-founders of Calcutta Connect, a charity which supports education in India.
He credits his wife, the well-known human rights lawyer Maeve O’Rourke, for turning him from a “hurler on the ditch” to become actively involved in politics.
He and his wife live in Rathfarnham. They have one son, Fionn, and a second one on the way in April.
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