Róisín Garvey
Róisín Garvey (born 5 July 1973) is an Irish former Green Party politician. She served as a Senator from June 2020 to January 2025 after being nominated by the Taoiseach as part of the Fianna Fáil–Fine Gael–Green coalition agreement. She was the Green Party’s leader in the Seanad from December 2022.
Garvey grew up in Inagh, County Clare, and went to Coláiste Muire in Ennis and then to NUI Galway. Her father, Flan Garvey, was a Fianna Fáil member of Clare County Council from 1985 to 2009. She has one son and five siblings. She previously worked for An Taisce and served on Clare County Council from 2019 to 2020. In 2020 she was the Green Party spokesperson on Rural Development.
She ran for the Clare seat in the 2020 general election but was not elected. She is fluent in Irish and spoke for the Greens on TG4 before the election. She was elected to the 26th Seanad in June 2020 by Taoiseach nomination. In March 2021 she and two other Green senators tabled a motion of no confidence against party chair Hazel Chu after Chu ran as an independent; the motion was withdrawn.
In 2022 she opposed plans for an eight-wind-turbine farm in County Clare; An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission. On 14 July 2024 she won the Green Party deputy leadership, succeeding Catherine Martin. She resigned as deputy leader and as party spokesperson on 13 October 2025 and left the party.
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