Catherine Martin (politician)
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Catherine Martin TD |
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| Deputy Leader of the Green Party | |
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Assumed office 11 June 2011 |
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| Leader | Eamon Ryan |
| Preceded by | Mary White |
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Assumed office February 2016 |
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| Constituency | Dublin Rathdown |
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Catherine Brigid Martin 7 December 1972 Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Spouse(s) | Francis Noel Duffy (m. 2002) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Website | www |
Catherine Brigid Martin (born 7 December 1972) is an Irish Green Party politician and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency, upon being elected at the 2016 general election. She has been Deputy Leader of the Green Party since 2011.
She was a member of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council from 2014 to 2016.
Catherine is a mother of three, and had been a teacher of English and Music, and the head of the Green Schools Committee at St. Tiernan’s Community School in Dundrum for 15 years prior to being elected to the Dáil. She is married to Francis Duffy, a Green Party politician who is the Deputy Mayor of the South Dublin County Council.
Catherine joined the Green Party in 2007, and was elected as Deputy Leader of the Green Party in 2011. In 2014 she was elected to the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council, and was elected to the Dáil in the 2016 General Election, after receiving 4,122 first preference votes.
She is the Green Party's Education Spokesperson.
Catherine is a member of:
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