About

Dan Boyle, TD (Member of Parliament
elected May 2002) for Cork South
Central, was the first Green
Party/Comhaontas Glas candidate to
have been elected to Cork City
Council. First elected in 1991 as a
representative for the South East Ward,
he stood and was elected for the
South Central Ward in 1999. His
contesting of the Cork South Central
Dáil Constituency has led more
people to vote for the Green Party in
this constituency than in any other
constituency in Ireland.

Born in 1962 in Chicago USA of
Irish emigrant parents, father
Joe (RIP) from the island of
Arranmore in Donegal; mother
Sheila from Cork City. He has
lived in his mother's native
Cork since eight years of age
in the Turners Cross area of the
city, where he was educated
at local schools - Scoil Chríost
Rí and Coláiste Chríost Rí, and
at the Cork Institute of
Technology where he studied
Business Studies and Child
Care. He is married to Bláithín
Hurley, a bank official, and
they have one daughter,
Saoirse (Irish for Freedom)
born in 1990.

He has worked in community
youth work, in disability work,
in social housing, in arts
administration and as a
researcher and policy
consultant for the Green Party
in Dáil Éireann and the
European Parliament