Mark Dearey

Mark Dearey
Senator
In office 21 February 2010 – 12 April 2011
Constituency	Nominated by the Taoiseach
Personal details
Born	(1963-03-19)19 March 1963 Drogheda,County Louth,Ireland
Political party	Green Party
Spouse	Laura Dearey
Children	4
Alma mater	University College Cork

Mark Dearey(born 19 March 1963) is an IrishGreen Partypolitician who served as aSenatorfrom 2010 to 2011, after beingnominated by the Taoiseach.

Political career

Dearey was a member ofLouth County Councilfor theGreen Party.He was elected to the Dundalk Town Council in 2004 and re-elected in 2009, he was also elected to the County Council for the first time.He was re-elected to the County Council in 2014.

He was the Green Party candidate at the2007 general electionin theLouthconstituency and received 7.6% of first preference votes, but was not elected. In the2011 general election,his vote declined to 4.7% of first preference votes. In 2012, he was selected as the Green Party's Spokesperson for Finance.

He ran unsuccessfully as the Green Party candidate in theMidlands–North-Westconstituency for the2014 European Parliament electionand received 1.5% of the first preference votes. He was also an unsuccessful candidate in the Louth constituency at the2016 general election.He did not contest the2019 local elections.He contested the2020 general electionfor the Green Party in Louth, but was not elected.

Background

He first came to public attention inCounty Louthin 1994, when he and three others from the county took a court action againstBritish Nuclear Fuels,to seek an end to reprocessing atSellafield.

In the early 1990s, he worked as a secondary schoolteacher inColáiste ÉannainDublin,before embarking on a career in organic horticulture where he worked for nine years. He then acquired the music venue and bar, The Spirit Store in Dundalk which he still owns and manages.

He is a Director of Turas, a Dundalk based, addiction counselling service. He is a founding member of the Newry Dundalk Farmers Market, Chairman of the Dundalk St. Patrick's Day Committee, and a former board member ofFriends of the Earth, Ireland.