Cavan Councillor Sarah O’Reilly is to take a seat in the Seanad.
Northern Sound can confirm the local representative will take a seat later today in the Seanad.
The East Cavan woman has been a councillor in Cavan since 2016 and topped the poll in last year’s local elections in the Bailieboro/Cootehill Municipal District.
The Aontu representative for the region received over 58,000 first preference votes in the election which is sure to leave her in a prominent position in taking a seat in the Oireachtas.
Cllr O’Reilly narrowly missed out in the most recent general election at taking a seat in Cavan/Monaghan and had previously contested the 2020 general elections also.
She previously was a Fianna Fáil councillor when she was co-opted to Cavan County Council in 2016 when she took Niamh Smyth’s seat when she was elected to the Dail.
She is a native of Tierworker in East Cavan and is a mother of four and a grandmother and hails from a farming family background.
Sarah is an Accountant Technician by trade. She has worked in Agriculture, as a political administrator and as a buyer for an international company in Cavan Town. Sarah is a member of the Castle Lake Committee, Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB), the Joint Policing Committee (JPC), Bailieborough Community School, Cavan’s Enterprise and Economic SPC, Cavan’s Transport and Infrastructure SPC, she also held the prestigious position of Chair of Cavan County Council 2020-2021.
