Peadar Tóibín (50), from Drogheda, Co Meath, was elected in Meath West with 20 per cent of first preference votes.
He was a member of Fianna Fáil while a student at UCD before joining Sinn Féin in 1998. Tóibín worked as a business consultant and began his political career when he was co-opted onto Navan Town Council in 2004.
In 2011, he won election to the Dáil for Sinn Féin and served as chair of the Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs between 2016 and 2018.
Tóibín resigned from Sinn Féin in 2018 over its support for abortion. The following year he founded Aontú, a socially conversative republican party.
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He retained his seat in the 2020 general election and remained Aontú’s sole representative in the 33rd Dáil.
His sisters Emer Tóibín and Mairéad Tóibín are running for the party in Meath East and Dún Laoghaire respectively.
