Máire Devine

Máire Devine is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as a Teachta Dála for Dublin South-Central since November 2024. She previously served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from June 2016 to June 2020.

Early and personal life

Devine was born in The Liberties to a family of republicans involved in campaigns around the 1981 Irish hunger strike. She is married to Kevin Devine; they have three children. She worked as a psychiatric nurse while a councillor and was a long-term trade union activist.

Political career

Devine was co-opted onto South Dublin County Council in 2011, representing Tallaght Central. She was re-elected in 2014.
She stood unsuccessfully in Dublin South-Central at the 2016 general election, but was later elected to the 25th Seanad on the Labour Panel.
In 2018, she was suspended from Sinn Féin for three months after retweeting a parody Twitter account that referred to Irish Prison Service officer Brian Stack as a "sadist." She lost her seat at the 2020 Seanad election.
In October 2020 she was co-opted to Dublin City Council representing the South West Inner City to replace Críona Ní Dhálaigh who resigned from her seat the previous month.
She was returned to the council in the 2024 local elections. Later in the same year, she was added to Sinn Féin's ticket in Dublin South-Central alongside Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Daithí Doolan.
At the 2024 general election, Devine was elected to the Dáil on the 15th and final count.