Eoin Ó Broin | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Ó Broin in 2024 | |
| Teachta Dála | |
| Assumed office February 2016 | |
| Constituency | Dublin Mid-West |
| Belfast City Councillor | |
| In office 7 June 2001 – 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Mick Conlon |
| Succeeded by | Caral Ni Chuilin |
| Constituency | Oldpark |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 1972 (age 52)[1][2] Cabinteely,Dublin, Ireland |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Domestic partner | Lynn Boylan[3] |
| Education | Crown Woods School[4] Blackrock College |
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Eoin Ó Broin (Irish pronunciation:[ˈoːnʲoːˈbˠɾˠɪnʲ]; born September 1972) is an IrishSinn Féin politician and writer who has been aTeachta Dála (TD) forDublin Mid-West constituency since the2016 general election.[5]
Ó Broin is fromCabinteely,County Dublin.[4] He was educated atCrown Woods School andBlackrock College. He holds a degree in Cultural Studies from theUniversity of East London and an MA in Irish politics fromQueen's University Belfast. For a period in the late 1980s he was the bassist in Dublin rock band The Foremen, with whom he performed on theRTÉ TV showJo Maxi in 1989.[6]
Ó Broin was elected toBelfast City Council in2001,[7] stepping down in 2004. He was the National Organiser ofÓgra Shinn Féin between 1995 and 1997. He was Sinn Féin's Director of European Affairs co-ordinating his party's team in theEuropean Parliament inBrussels, from 2004 to 2007. He is a former member of Sinn Féin's governing body[8] and a regular columnist with the republican newspaperAn Phoblacht.[9]
He campaigned against theTreaty of Lisbon and spoke at theNational Forum on Europe on behalf of Sinn Féin and the No 2 Lisbon campaign.
He is also a published writer. His first book,Matxinada - Basque Nationalism and Radical Basque Youth Movements was published in English in 2004 and in Spanish in 2005. His second book,Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism was published by Pluto Press in 2009 and the launch was held in Pearse Street Public Library on 16 February 2009.[10] Ó Broin is also the editor ofLeft Republican Review. As a freelance writer he has articles published inAn Phoblacht,Magill,Village Magazine andThe Irish Times.[11]
He was an unsuccessful Sinn Féin candidate for theDún Laoghaire constituency at the2007 general election.[12] He ran forDublin Mid-West at the2011 general election. He polled 5,060 votes being beaten to the last seat in the constituency byDerek Keating ofFine Gael. He subsequently declared his intention to run for theSeanad, and was defeated in his election campaign. In 2013, Ó Broin was co-opted by Sinn Féin ontoSouth Dublin County Council to representClondalkin local electoral area, after sitting councillor Matthew McDonagh resigned his seat.[13]
In the2016 general election, he topped the poll in theDublin Mid-West constituency with 22.7% of thefirst preference votes, and was elected on the first count.[14]Mark Ward was co-opted to fill Ó Broin's seat on South Dublin County Council.[15]
In May 2019, the election ofFrances Fitzgerald TD as aMember of the European Parliament created a vacancy in the Dublin Mid-West constituency. At the resultingby-election in November 2019, Ó Broin managed the campaign of the Sinn Féin candidateMark Ward. Wards's victory gave Sinn Féin two of the constituency's four seats.[16]
At thegeneral election in February 2020, Ó Broin again topped the poll, with 26.1% of thefirst-preference votes. He was again re-elected on the first count, and his transfers secured Mark Ward's re-election on the second count.[17][18]
As of 2021[update], Ó Broin is Sinn Féin's spokesperson on housing.[19][20] In May 2019, he published a book entitledHome: Why Public Housing is the Answer which specifically addressed the issue of housing in Ireland.Home was generally well received by critics in Ireland, and became a surprisebestseller.[21][22][23] Housing proved one of the key issues in the2020 Irish general election and factored into Sinn Féin's significant gains in the voting.[20][24]
Ó Broin is the partner ofLynn Boylan, a Sinn Féin MEP for Dublin.[25]
The party's housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin is another of the Dáil's best performers with a comprehensive understanding of his brief, another key area of focus for voters in this election.
Ó Broin – along with the party leader Mary Lou McDonald; Pearse Doherty, the Sinn Féin finance spokesperson; and Louise O'Reilly, its spokesperson on health – has been a crucial player in the party's recent gains.
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