Mags Murray

Mags Murray is a Fianna Fáil Councillor on Fingal County Council for the Castleknock Local Electoral Area. She was first elected at the 2004 elections as a member of the Progressive Democrats. She was subsequently an unsuccessful candidate for the party in the Irish general election, 2007 in the Dublin West. As the PDs became defunct she joined Fianna Fáil in February 2008. She has been re-elected at each subsequent local election.

In June 2014 Murray was elected Cathaoirleach of Fingal County Council due to the support of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and a number of Independents and served until 2015. When attempting to visit her sick daughter in 2015 who was having a liver transplant in St. Vincent's Hospital her car after the conclusion of a Council meeting her car was blocked in by Anti-Watercharge protesters.

She is the current Chairperson of LAMA; the Local Authority Members Association.

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