Róisín Garvey

Róisín Garvey (born 5 July 1973) is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as a Senator since June 2020, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. She was elected Deputy leader of the Green Party on 14 July 2024.

Early life
Garvey grew up in Inagh and attended Coláiste Muire, Ennis and NUI Galway. Her father, Flan Garvey, was a Fianna Fáil member of Clare County Council between 1985 and 2009. Garvey formerly worked for An Taisce.

Political career
She previously served as a member of Clare County Council from 2019 to 2020.

Garvey was an unsuccessful Green Party candidate in the 2020 general election for the Clare constituency. A fluent Irish speaker, she represented the Greens on the Irish-language TV debate on TG4 prior to that election.

On 24 March 2021, Garvey was one of three Green Party senators to table a motion of no confidence against party chairperson Hazel Chu, after Chu announced her candidacy in a Seanad bye-election as an independent.

In 2022, she opposed plans for an eight wind-turbine wind farm in County Clare. She said, "There are a lot of people locally who don't want it there because they already have enough of wind-turbines in the area... I have never been out demanding wind farms in my life and I don't intend to start now".

On 14 July 2024, Garvey won the Green Party's deputy leadership election to succeed Catherine Martin.

Personal life
She has one son.