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A candidate for People Before Profit. View party
RUNNING
Richard Boyd-Barrett
Party
EU alliance
European Anti-Capitalist Left
Constituency
Occupation
TD
Age
57
Biography

Boyd-Barrett has been a People Before Profit-Solidarity TD for Dún Laoghaire since 2011. Between 2009 anbd 2011 he was a member of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. He is a member of the Oireachtas Finance Committee and the Oireachtas Public Oversight and Petitions Committee. He has been a prominent government critic throughout his time in the Dáil. He was a member of the Right2Water campaign, and is a vocal supporter of Palestine.

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