Denise Mitchell


Denise Mitchell is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála for the Dublin Bay North constituency since the 2016 general election. She was a member of Dublin City Council from 2014 to 2016.
A well-known community activist locally, Mitchell is described as being close to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald. In 2016 she listed the campaign calling to Repeal the 8th amendment as a priority for her if elected to the Dáil.
In the 2016 General Election she took the fourth of five seats in the newly-created Dublin Bay North constituency.
In the 2020 General Election she received the single highest vote of any candidate in the State, securing 21,344 first-preference votes and being elected on the first count.

Personal Life

Originally from Darndale, Denise Mitchell joined Sinn Féin in the early 1980s. She worked in a locally-based knitwear factory Shamrock Apparel before also having careers with Motorola, Gateway 2000 and Brink's.
In 2014 she came to prominence as a local leader of the Right2Water movement protesting against the imposition of domestic water charges in Ireland, and during a rally in Ayrfield Community Centre she said it was important no political party tried to takeover the movement.
She lives in Ayrfield, Coolock with her husband Alan and three children.