Erin McGreehan | |
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 McGreehan in 2022 | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| Assumed office November 2024 | |
Erin McGreehan (born July 1982) [1] is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since the 2024 general election. She previously served as a Senator from 2020 to 2024, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. [2] [3]
McGreehan grew up in Castletowncooley, a townland in the north of County Louth, and attended Mullaghbuoy National School and Bush Post Primary School. [4]
McGreehan lives on the Cooley Peninsula with her partner, Donal McMorland, and their four children; they run an engineering business. [5]
Formerly a member of Ógra Fianna Fáil in County Louth, she was elected to serve on the Ógra Fianna Fáil National Executive. She worked as a parliamentary assistant to Senator Diarmuid Wilson for several years.
She served as a member of Louth County Council from 2019 to 2020. [6] In June 2020, she was nominated by the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, to Seanad Éireann. [7] McGreehan was appointed to the Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters and the Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. [8]
In 2024, McGreehan welcomed the decision of the Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters to extend the Free Travel Pass to any person medically certified as unfit to drive. [9]
At a selection convention on 8 August 2024 in Dundalk, McGreehan was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate for the 2024 general election in the Louth constituency. [10]
She is currently a Director of Women's Aid Dundalk. [11] An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk [12] and a member of Glenmore Athletic Club.