Darren O'Rourke

Darren O'Rourke is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath East constituency at the 2020 general election.

Background
Originally from Kells, O'Rourke trained in Dublin Institute of Technology and holds a number of master's degrees from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was a medical scientist at St. James's Hospital in Dublin.

Political career
O'Rourke was previously a policy advisor to Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD. He was the Sinn Féin candidate at the 2013 Meath East by-election, which was won by Fine Gael's Helen McEntee. He was unsuccessful again at the 2016 general election, but at the 2020 general election he topped the poll with 24.37% of the first-preference votes, and was elected on the second count.

He was a member of Meath County Council for the Ashbourne local electoral area from 2014 to 2020. Aisling Ó Néill was co-opted to O'Rourke's seat on Meath County Council following his election to the Dáil.

In 2022, O'Rourke put forward a bill to require all pharmaceutical companies to make their payments to healthcare organisations and professionals public in a register.