Annie Hoey

Annie Hoey (born 3 October 1988) is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Senator for the Agricultural Panel since April 2020.[1]

Senator

Annie Hoey
Senator
Assumed office
April 2020
ConstituencyAgricultural Panel
Personal details
Born (1988-10-03) 3 October 1988
Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Political partyLabour Party
Alma mater

Early life and education

Hoey is from Beamore, Drogheda, a suburb just by the border between County Meath and County Louth.[2]

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Theatre Studies in 2009, a Master of Arts in Comparative and World Literature in 2012, and a Postgraduate certificate in Women's Studies in 2013, all from University College Cork.[3] Hoey was voted "college society person of the year" in 2013 for her work with Amnesty, as chairperson of the LGBT Society, and for co-founding of a humanist society in Cork.[4] She also co-founded UCC's first ever feminist society, FemSoc.[5]

Hoey later went on to study a specialist diploma in Quality Management at the University of Limerick in 2019.

Career

Representative student organisations

In 2013, Hoey was elected as the Deputy President and Campaigns Officer for UCC Students' Union.[6][7]

At the Union of Students in Ireland congress in April 2014, Hoey was elected as the Vice President for Equality and Citizenship.[8] In March 2015, Hoey was re-elected to the same position.[9][7]

During 2014 and 2015, in the lead up to the referendum of the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, known as the Marriage Equality referendum, Hoey used her role as USI Equality and Citizenship Officer to mobilise students across the country. She organised USI’s flagship Pink Training event in Cork in November 2014. The weekend conference focused heavily on training students in campaigning for a Yes vote and it was attended by a record number of students. In the months leading up to the vote in 2015, Hoey traveled across the country conducting training events for students on messaging and canvassing. Hoey's mobilisation work accumulated with an idea of a ‘voter motor,’ a campaign that was launched by USI in the final week of the campaign to encourage people to give their fellow citizens a lift to the polling stations.[8]

During Hoey's second term as the UCI Vice President for Equality and Citizenship, she was appointed Deputy President of USI to USI President Kevin Donoghue.[10]

Hoey then served as President of the Union of Students in Ireland from 2016 to 2017.[3] During her tenure as USI President, an estimated 15,000 students took part in the #EducationIs demonstration in Dublin, to show student opposition to income contingent loan schemes.[11] In March 2017, Hoey presented to the Citizens' Assembly at the fourth meeting of the Citizens' Assembly on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.[12]

Hoey was also a board member of the Higher Education Authority.[13]

Political work

Hoey took up the role as the Education and Training officer for the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment in 2017.[14] Soon after, Hoey was appointed as the National Canvassing Coordinator and a spokesperson for Together For Yes working for long-time campaigner Ailbhe Smyth.[15][16][17]

During the 2018 Irish presidential election, Hoey was appointed Volunteer Director for Campaign to Re-elect Michael D. Higgins.[15] Shortly after, Hoey was employed as the Women and Youth Development Manager with the Labour Party from 2019 to 2020.[15]

Meath County Council

In the 2019 Meath County Council election Hoey was elected on the 9th count in May 2019 to represent Laytown-Bettystown on the Meath County Council with 1,093 first preference votes.[18] She served as a member of Meath County Council from 2019 to 2020.

2020 elections

In February 2020, Hoey unsuccessfully contested the 2020 Irish general election as the Labour Party candidate for the Meath East constituency, receiving 874 first preference votes (2.08%).[19]

In March 2020, Hoey successfully contested the 2020 Irish Seanad election as the Labour Party candidate for the Agricultural Panel.[20] Hoey was elected on the 20th count receiving 94,186 votes.[21] Elaine McGinty was co-opted to Hoey's seat on Meath County Council following her election to the Seanad.

Seanad Éireann

Hoey was one of five Labour Senators to seek a High Court ruling to determine whether the Seanad can sit without all 60 members.[22] On July 7th, 2020, Hoey was appointed Party Spokesperson on Higher Education, Innovation and Research.[23]

References
  1. "Annie Hoey". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. "Labour councillor Annie Hoey elected to Seanad". Meath Chronicle. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. "Cllr Annie Hoey". labour.ie. the Labour Party. Archived from the original on 11 February 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  4. "Annie Hoey The Phoenix Magazine". Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  5. "Annie Hoey Elected to TCDSU Board of Trustees – The University Times". Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  6. https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/annie-hoey/
  7. http://trinitynews.ie/2017/10/former-usi-president-annie-hoey-appointed-to-tcdsu-board-of-trustees/
  8. https://gcn.ie/gra-the-law-student-movement-marriage-equality/
  9. http://www.witsu.ie/1938-2/
  10. "Annie Hoey elected to lead USI | Union of Students in Ireland". Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  11. "Thousands rally in Dublin protest against student fees". Archived from the original on 1 November 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  12. "Citizens Assembly Meetings" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  13. "Higher Education Authority" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  14. https://www.anniehoey.com/meetannie
  15. https://www.labour.ie/anniehoey/biography/
  16. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07907184.2018.1500461?needAccess=true
  17. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/29/meet_two_of_the_activists_behind
  18. "Local Electoral Area: Laytown-Bettystown". Irish Independent. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  19. "Meath East constituency | The Irish Times". Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  20. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/sf-s-lynn-boylan-among-those-running-for-seanad-1.4189457
  21. https://twitter.com/OireachtasNews/status/1245308152675012609
  22. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/senators-to-seek-court-ruling-that-could-extend-deadline-to-form-a-government-39279135.html
  23. https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/labour-announces-new-party-spokespeople-1009732.html
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