Kathleen Funchion | |
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![]() Funchion in 2020 | |
Chair of the Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration | |
In office 15 September 2020 – June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Alan Farrell |
Chair of the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement | |
In office 4 April 2016 – 15 September 2020 | |
Preceded by | Joe McHugh |
Succeeded by | Fergus O'Dowd |
Teachta Dála | |
Assumed office February 2016 | |
Constituency | Carlow-Kilkenny |
Personal details | |
Born | Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland[1] | 22 April 1981
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | American College Dublin |
Kathleen Funchion (born 22 April 1981)[1][2] is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Carlow–Kilkenny since the 2016 general election.[3] She was elected as an Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency at the 2024 European Parliament election. She is Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Children, Disabilities, Integration and Equality.
She was a member of Kilkenny Borough Council from 2009 to 2014 and Kilkenny County Council from 2014 to 2016.[4] Prior to her election to the Dáil, she worked with the SIPTU trade union.[5]
She contested the 2007 general election and the 2011 general election in Carlow-Kilkenny, and the 2009 European Parliament election in East. She was elected to the 32nd Dáil for Carlow-Kilkenny at the 2016 general election, taking the third seat. From 2016 to 2020, she served Chair of the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.[2] She was re-elected at the 2020 general election, taking the first seat. In September 2020, she was appointed as chair of the Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration in the 33rd Dáil.
Funchion was a Sinn Féin candidate for the South constituency at the 2024 European Parliament election.[6] Funchion was elected, taking the fifth seat.[7] She will take office on 17 July.[8]