Marie Moloney

Marie Moloney
Kerry County Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2019
In office
June 2009 – April 2011
ConstituencyKillarney
Senator
In office
25 May 2011 – 8 June 2016
ConstituencyLabour Panel
Personal details
Born (1958-08-26) 26 August 1958 (age 66)
County Kerry, Ireland
Political partyLabour Party

Marie Moloney (born 26 August 1958) is an Irish Labour Party politician and former member of Seanad Éireann.[1]

From Coolick, Kilcummin, near Killarney, Moloney was educated at the local national school and at Killarney Technical College.[2] From 1992 to 2007 she was constituency secretary of Breeda Moynihan-Cronin, who was then a Labour Party TD for the Kerry South constituency.[3] She was elected to Kerry County Council at the 2009 local elections for the Killarney local electoral area, and was elected deputy mayor of County Kerry in June 2010.[2][4] She unsuccessfully contested the Kerry South constituency at the 2011 general election. In April 2011 she was elected to Seanad Éireann on the Labour Panel. Moloney was once again elected to Kerry County Council at the 2019 and 2024 council elections for the Killarney local electoral area.[5]

She is an official with the trade union SIPTU.[2] She was the Labour Party Seanad spokesperson on Social Protection. During the debate on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 in July 2013, she made an emotional appeal to senators to desist from using emotive language during the debate.[6]

  1. ^ "Marie Moloney". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b c "Marie Moloney – Biography". Labour Party. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  3. ^ "Marie Moloney". Labour Party. Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  4. ^ "Marie Moloney". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Results – Killarney LEA". RTÉ News. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Senator appeals for end to graphic abortion descriptions". The Irish Times. 19 July 2013. Archived from the original on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.