New Fine Gael TD Naoise Ó Muirí (50) has succeeded Dublin Bay North political giant Richard Bruton. Elected to the Dáil on his third attempt, he had first sought a seat in 2011 and contested again unsuccessfully in 2016.
First elected to Dublin City Council for the Clontarf electoral area in the 2004 local elections, he has served 20 years as a councillor and was also elected lord mayor of Dublin in 2012. In the June local elections, he topped the poll in Clontarf and was elected on the first count, with 17.5 per cent of the first preferences for the electoral area.
Married with three daughters, he is a University of Galway engineering graduate and runs his own technology company.
He is chair of Dublin City’s Environment Strategic Policy Committee and a governor and member of the executive committee of the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street.
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