Denise Mitchell

Denise Mitchell (born November 1976) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency since the 2016 general election.[2]

Denise Mitchell

TD
Teachta Dála
Assumed office
February 2016
ConstituencyDublin Bay North
Personal details
BornNovember 1976 (age 44)[1]
Coolock, Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Political partySinn Féin
Spouse(s)Alan Mitchell (m. 2007)
Children3
Alma materDublin Institute of Technology

She was a member of Dublin City Council from 2014 to 2016.[3][4]

A well-known community activist locally, Mitchell is described as being close to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.[5] In 2016, she listed the campaign calling to Repeal the 8th amendment as a priority for her if elected to the Dáil.[6]

In the 2016 general election, she took the fourth of five seats in the newly-created Dublin Bay North constituency.

In the 2020 general election, she received the single highest vote of any candidate in the State, securing 21,344 first-preference votes and being elected on the first count.[7]

Personal life

She is originally from Darndale. Mitchell joined Sinn Féin in the early 1980s. She worked in a locally-based knitwear factory Shamrock Apparel before also having careers with Motorola, Gateway 2000 and Brink's.[8]

In 2014, she came to prominence as a local leader of the Right2Water movement protesting against the imposition of domestic water charges in Ireland, and during a rally in Ayrfield Community Centre she said it was important no political party tried to takeover the movement.[9]

She lives in Ayrfield, Coolock with her husband Alan and three children.

References
  1. Tim Ryan (2020). Nealon's Guide to the 33rd Dáil and 26th Seanad and the 2019 Local and European Elections. Grand Canal Publishing.
  2. "Denise Mitchell". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  3. "Denise Mitchell". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  4. "Election 2016: Denise Mitchell". RTÉ News. 1 March 2016.
  5. "Election 2020: Denise Mitchell (Sinn Féin)". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  6. "Una Mullally: Election result is not a victory for anti-abortion lobby". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  7. "Poll-toppers: the 10 candidates who secured the most first-preference votes in this year's election". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  8. Brennan, Michael (2019). In Deep Water: How people, politics and protests sank Irish Water. Mercier Press. p. 35. ISBN 9781781176580.
  9. Brennan, Michael (2019). In Deep Water: How people, politics and protests sank Irish Water. Mercier Press. p. 36. ISBN 9781781176580.


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