Sinn Féin’s Réada Cronin will return to Dáil Éireann to serve her second term as a TD, following her election in Kildare North. Ms Cronin was a successful first time candidate in the 2020 general election. She later served as Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on defence.

She was first elected to the Dáil less than a year after she lost her seat on Kildare County Council. She had served as a councillor for the Maynooth LEA from 2014 to 2019.

Ms Cronin (60), a mother of four, previously worked in social care.

Ms Cronin faced a number of controversies following her election to the Dáil in 2020. She apologised when a number of historic posts she made on Twitter (now X) resurfaced. In the tweets, Ms Cronin criticised Israel, and included a claim that European wars were instigated and funded by banks and the retweeting of a message that Hitler was a pawn for a bank owned by the Rothschild family.