Caroline Conroy

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| image = Caroline Conroy, July 2022 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Conroy in July 2022

| office = Lord Mayor of Dublin

| term_start = 27 June 2022

| term_end = 26 June 2023

| predecessor = Alison Gilliland

| successor = Daithí de Róiste

| office1 = Dublin City Councillor

| term_start1 = May 2019

| term_end1 = June 2024

| constituency1 = Ballymun-Finglas

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| nationality = Irish

| party = Green Party

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| alma_mater = Dublin City University

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Caroline Conroy is an Irish Green Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from June 2022 to June 2023.{{Cite news|title=Green Party councillor elected as new Dublin Lord Mayor |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2022/06/27/green-party-councillor-elected-new-lord-mayor-of-dublin/|date=27 June 2022|access-date=28 June 2022|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2024-12/lord-mayors-of-dublin-1665-2024.pdf|title=Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2024|work=Dublin City Council|date=December 2024|access-date=26 March 2025}}

Conroy grew up in the Ballymun Flats, and ran for local election in the area in 2014. She was first elected in the 2019 local elections, for the Ballymun-Finglas local electoral area in Dublin City Council. In June 2022, she was elected as Lord Mayor of Dublin, succeeding Alison Gilliland.

In her term she was highly critical of anti-immigrant protests in Ballymun and across Dublin, which she said were organised by the far-right, branding the protests "really embarrassing" and "not what we are about in Ballymun."{{Cite web|title=Ballymun refugee protests slammed as 'frustrating' and 'embarrassing' by Lord Mayor

|url=https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/ballymun-refugee-protests-slammed-frustrating-25931578|date=1 January 2023|access-date=28 June 2023|work=Dublin Live}}

She awarded Greta Thunberg and Duncan Stewart the Freedom of the City of Dublin at the end of her term, the first time the award acknowledged the role of environmental activists.{{Cite news|title=Greta Thunberg to be given honorary freedom of Dublin city |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2023/06/07/greta-thunberg-to-be-given-honorary-freedom-of-dublin-city/|date=7 June 2023|access-date=28 June 2023|newspaper=The Irish Times}}

She lost her seat at the 2024 local elections.