Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 25 May 2011 |
Term End: | 8 June 2016 |
Constituency: | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Birth Date: | 28 June 1960 |
Birth Place: | Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland |
Nationality: | Irish |
Party: | Labour Party |
Alma Mater: | University College Dublin |
Mary Moran (; born 28 June 1960) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Senator from 2011 to 2016, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.[1]
Moran is from Dundalk, County Louth. She was educated at St. Vincent's Secondary School, Dundalk and University College Dublin.[2]
She unsuccessfully contested the Louth constituency at the 2011 general election. In April 2011, she was a Labour Party candidate for the 2011 Seanad Éireann election on the Administrative Panel but was not elected.[3] In May 2011, she was nominated by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the 24th Seanad.[4]
She is a former secondary school teacher.[2] Her sister is former MEP Emer Costello.[5]
She was the Labour Party Seanad spokesperson on Education, Disability, Equality and Mental Health.