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Emer CurrieTD
Currie in 2024
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2024
Constituency	Dublin West
Senator
In office 29 June 2020 – 30 November 2024
Constituency	Nominated by the Taoiseach
Personal details
Born	(1979-05-01) 1 May 1979 (age 45) County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Political party	Fine Gael
Spouse	Malcolm Craig
Children	2
Parent	Austin Currie (father)
Alma mater	Queen's University Belfast

Emer Currie (born 1 May 1979) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since the 2024 general election. She previously served as a Senator from 2020 to 2024, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.

She previously served as a member of Fingal County Council from 2019 to 2020.

Currie was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2020 general election as the Fine Gael running mate of outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin West.

Her father, Austin Currie, was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland as well as a former Minister of State and TD in the Republic of Ireland.

She was elected to the Dáil for the Dublin West constituency at the 2024 general election.

References

1. "'We intend on being prepared for election' - daughter of former Fine Gael minister selected as Varadkar's running mate". independent.ie. The Independent. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
2. Emer Currie (1 May 2023). "Here it is! And released on my birthday too. When I was asked to do a TedTalk in Stormont of all places, there was only one thing I could talk about…a man who changed it forever". Archived from the original on 9 June 2023 – via Twitter.
3. "Emer Currie". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
4. "Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces his 11 Seanad nominees". thejournal.ie. The Journal. 27 June 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
5. "Emer Currie Dublin West". Fine Gael. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
6. O'Halloran, Marie (10 February 2020). "Dublin West results: Joan Burton and Ruth Coppinger lose seats". Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
7. "Election 2020: Dublin West". Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
8. "'We intend on being prepared for election' - daughter of former Fine Gael minister selected as Varadkar's running mate". independent.ie. The Independent. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

External links

• Emer Currie's page on the Fine Gael website

• 1979 births
• Living people
• Fine Gael senators
• Members of the 26th Seanad
• Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
• Politicians from County Tyrone
• 21st-century women members of Seanad Éireann
• Fine Gael TDs
• Fine Gael local councillors
• Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
• Members of the 34th Dáil
• 21st-century women Teachtaí Dála