DUN Richard Boyd-Barrett PBP
DUN Richard Boyd-Barrett PBP

Richard Boyd-Barrett first ran for the Dáil in 2002 under the Socialist Worker banner when he picked up 872 first preference votes.

Five years later, as a People Before Profit candidate, he got 5,233 votes and only lost out in the end to the Green Party’s Ciarán Cuffe for the last seat, although it was by a couple of thousand votes.

His breakthrough came in 2011 when he stayed in the race at the expense of Ivana Bacik by 147 votes and went on to win a seat.

A prominent anti-war campaigner he is also a vociferous critic of Government economic policy. The 57-year-old went to St Michael’s College and then UCD, where he earned an MA in English literature.

In 2015, he spoke in the Dáil about the death of his infant daughter Ella 13 years earlier who had a fatal foetal abnormality.

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