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SenatorGarret Ahearn
Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 June 2020
Constituency	Administrative Panel
Personal details
Born	1980 or 1981 (age 43–44) Dublin, Ireland
Political party	Fine Gael
Spouse	Laura Whelan
Children	2
Parent	Theresa Ahearn (mother)

Garret Ahearn (born 1980) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Senator for the Administrative Panel since April 2020. He is vice-chair of the Fine Gael parliamentary party. He is the Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Enterprise and Trade. He is vice-chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Prior to becoming a senator, he was a member of Tipperary County Council from 2019 to 2020. He was Mayor of Clonmel from 2019 to 2020.

He unsuccessfully contested the Tipperary constituency at the 2020 general election.

He is the son of Theresa Ahearn, who served as a Fine Gael TD for the Tipperary South constituency from 1989 to 2000.

References

1. "Fine Gael Candidate Garret Ahearn". 2020. Archived from the original on 9 June 2023.
2. "Garret Ahearn". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
3. "Garret Ahearn". Fine Gael. Archived from the original on 23 July 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
4. "Clonmel Borough District". www.tipperarycoco.ie. Tipperary County Council. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
5. "Son of late TD, Theresa Ahearn, selected as FG in Tipperary". Irish Examiner. 11 March 2018. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.

External links

• Garret Ahearn's page on the Fine Gael website

• Living people
• Fine Gael senators
• Members of the 26th Seanad
• Politicians from County Tipperary
• Members of Tipperary County Council
• Administrative Panel senators
• 1980 births
• Fine Gael local councillors
• Fine Gael candidates in Dáil elections