Pauline O'Reilly

Pauline O'Reilly is an Irish Green Party politician, who was elected to Seanad Éireann in April 2020.[1][2]

Senator

Pauline O'Reilly
Senator
Assumed office
April 2020
ConstituencyLabour Panel
Galway City Councillor
In office
May 2019 – April 2020
ConstituencyGalway City West
Personal details
NationalityIrish
Political partyGreen Party
Children2
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
Law Society of Ireland

Early life and education

O'Reilly qualified as a solicitor. She is chairwoman of the Galway Steiner National School.

Political career

O'Reilly was elected to Galway City Council at the 2019 Irish local elections.[3]

O'Reilly stood unsuccessfully in Galway West in the 2020 general election. She won 6% of first preference votes and finished ninth in the 5 seater constituency.[4][5]

She was elected to Seanad Éireann in 2020 for the Labour Panel.[6] Niall Murphy was co-opted to O'Reilly's seat on Galway City Council following her election to the Seanad. She was the Green Party spokesperson for Children and Youth affairs.[7] She was replaced by newly-elected TD Patrick Costello after a frontbench reshuffle on the 30th of April 2020. [8]

Personal life

O'Reilly has two children and practises unschooling with them.[9][10] Her husband Conor works from home.[11]

gollark: It's hardly the *algorithms'* fault as much as... YouTube policy, the practicalities of moderating such a gigantic platform, and indirectly the giant amount of conflicting interests affecting it.
gollark: They probably make use of magic inscrutable "machine learning" stuff a lot.
gollark: I'm somewhat sympathetic to YouTube since they are in a problematic situation, but they are *still* very annoying a lot of the time.
gollark: I wonder if you can exploit that somehow.
gollark: All part of his evil plan, I'm sure. Or he's just being very madlad.

References
  1. "Pauline O'Reilly". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. McMorrow, Conor (4 May 2019). "Why the Local Elections matter". RTÉ News. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  3. "O'Reilly sets out priorities for Election 2020 campaign". advertiser.ie. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  4. "Pauline O'Reilly to run for Greens in Galway West". advertiser.ie. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  5. "Party unstuck by a green wave of a different hue". Connacht Tribune. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  6. "Seanad elections: Traveller candidate narrowly loses out on election". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  7. "The new Green councillors you have never heard of before". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  8. "Green Party Spokespeople". Green Party. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  9. "Pauline O'Reilly". Green Party. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  10. "Unschooling in Galway – one family on its experience of teaching at home". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  11. "Books, maps and lots of Lego: how to furnish your home school". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.


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