Dessie Ellis

Dessie Ellis TD
Ellis in 2024
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2011
Constituency	Dublin North-West
Dublin City Councillor
In office 1999–2011
Constituency	Finglas
Personal details
Born	Desmond Ellis (1953-09-23) 23 September 1953 (age 71) Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin
Alma mater	Dublin Institute of Technology
Website	dessieellis.ie
Military service
Paramilitary	Provisional Irish Republican Army
Years of service	1970s–1990s

Desmond Ellis (born 23 September 1953) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency since the 2011 general election.^[1] During the 1970s and 1980s Ellis was a member of the Provisional IRA until his arrest in Ireland in 1981. Ellis subsequently fled Ireland before being recaptured in the United States and returned to Irish authorities.

In 1983 Ellis was found guilty of possessing materials used to make explosive devices for the IRA and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by an Irish court. In 1990 Ellis was the first person extradited from the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom under the 1987 Extradition Act, on charges of terrorism on charges related to the 1982 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings as well as the 1983 Harrods bombing, however Ellis was acquitted of these charges in 1991. Ellis moved into constitutional politics in 1999 when he was elected to Dublin City Council, a position he held until he was elected to his current position as a TD.