Matt Carthy

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Matt Carthy (2018)

Matt Carthy (born July 19, 1977 in Birmingham ) is an Irish politician from Sinn Féin . Since February 2020 he has been Teachta Dála in the Irish House of Commons Dáil Éireann . Carty was previously a member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2020 .

Life

Youth and education

Carthy was born on 19th 1977 in Birmingham. His mother is from County Monaghan , Ireland , and his father is from County Roscommon, Ireland . The family moved to County Roscommon when Carthy was two years old and lived there until he was ten. His family then spent a year in Holywell in northeast Wales before returning to Ireland to live in Carrickmacross , County Monaghan.

Carty describes the experience of life on the Irish border during the Northern Ireland conflict as having shaped his Republican political views. In particular, he named the hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty .

Carthy studied marketing for a year at the Dublin Institute of Technology , where he founded a Sinn Féin College cumann (college group) in 1996. Carthy was a founding member of Ógra Shinn Féin , Sinn Féin's youth organization , the following year . He worked as a full-time youth organizer for Ógra in Dublin at the Sinn Féin party center and as a press officer for Sinn Féin.

Carthy lives in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan with his wife and their five children.

Political career

Carthy at a Euranet debate (2016)
Carthy in the European Parliament (2019)

In 1999, at the age of 21, Carty was elected the first Sinn Féin member of County Monaghan's Carrickmacross City Council, making him the country's youngest elected representative. In June 2006, Carthy was elected the first Sinn Féin mayor of Carrickmacross parish. He was a member of Monaghan County Council from 2004 to 2014 and was elected Mayor of Monaghan County Council in 2008.

European Parliament

In 2014 his party nominated him for the European Parliament elections . In the Irish constituency of Midlands-North West, he won the third of four seats with 17.7 percent of the vote, alongside Luke Flanagan , Mairead McGuinness and Marian Harkin . In parliament he joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left . For the parliamentary group, he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development in the 8th electoral term (2014–2019). He was also a member of the investigative committee to examine alleged violations of Union law and abuses in the application of the same in connection with money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion , in the special committee on financial crime, tax evasion and tax avoidance as well as a deputy member in the committees for economics and currency as well as for Transport and Tourism (2017-2019)

In the 2019 European elections , Carthy defended his mandate in the Midlands-North West constituency. In the 9th electoral term he rejoined the GUE / NGL parliamentary group, for which he is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and an alternate member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He resigned his mandate on February 7, 2020 and was replaced by Chris MacManus in the European Parliament.

Dáil Éireann

On February 8, 2020, he was elected in the first round of the elections for Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin candidate in the constituency of Cavan-Monaghan.

Web links

Commons : Matt Carthy  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sinn Féin Mayor: Former Ógra activist looks forward to challenge | Phoblacht. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Harry McGee: Midlands North-West: Carthy takes third seat. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 8th legislative term | Matt CARTHY | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 9th legislative term | Matt CARTHY | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Carthy, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish politician (Sinn Féin), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham