Deputy Richard O’Donoghue was first elected to the Dail in the 2020 General Election with a total of 10,032 votes having previously served as a County Councillor on Limerick City and County Council since 2014.

Deputy O’Donoghue is a co founder of Independent Ireland and cited his reason for setting up the party is “to offer a real choice and a party that puts the people of our communities first, a return to grassroots, people first politics with a focus on leaving a better Ireland behind for future generations to look forward to”

Deputy O’Donoghue helped to elect two Independent Ireland councillors in the same LEA to Limerick City and County Council in 2024. The party’s first electoral outing was lauded as a great success. In the European election, Independent Ireland's three candidates received 108,685 first-preference votes, coming fourth behind Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Sinn Féin. Ciaran Mullooly was elected in Midlands–North-West, with Niall Boylan coming fifth on the last count in the four-seat Dublin constituency. In the local elections, the party ranked seventh in first-preference votes, with 51,562 votes, and elected 23 of its 61 candidates. The party elected six councillors to Galway County Council and four councillors to the Cork County Council, and became the third largest party on both councils. Of its thirteen incumbents, eleven were re-elected.

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Email: richard.odonoghue@oireachtas.ie

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