In 2020, Denise Mitchell (48) not only topped the poll in Dublin Bay North but got the highest vote in the State with a whopping 29.8 per cent. This time around with a two-candidate strategy she was comfortably elected to the second seat.
Deputy whip of Sinn Féin, spokeswoman on Dublin and junior spokeswoman on housing, she is also a member of a number of Oireachtas committees, including parliamentary reform and parliamentary privilege and oversight.
Mitchell has built a solid base in Coolock, where she has lived all her life, and is regarded as an excellent constituency TD.
Active in the campaign against water charges, her first electoral outing was an unsuccessful 2009 local election bid in Artane-Whitehall, but she won in 2014 in the Beaumont-Donaghmede area before her election to the Dáil for the first time in 2016.
She previously worked for Shamrock Apparel in Coolock, before moving to mobile phone company Motorola and then to computer manufacturer Gateway in 2000 and to Brinks Ireland, the cash-in-transit operator.
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