Emer Costello

{{Short description|Irish former politician (born 1962)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Costello, Emer-2148.jpg

| caption = Costello in 2014

| office = Member of the European Parliament

| term_start = 30 February 2012

| term_end = 24 May 2014

| constituency = Dublin

| office1 = Lord Mayor of Dublin

| term_start1 = 15 June 2009

| term_end1 = 26 June 2010

| predecessor1 = Eibhlin Byrne

| successor1 = Gerry Breen

| office2 = Dublin City Councillor

| term_start2 = 14 July 2003

| term_end2 = 22 February 2012

| constituency2 = North Inner City

| birth_name = Emer Anne Malone

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|9|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland

| death_date =

| death_place =

| nationality = Irish

| party = Labour Party

| spouse = {{marriage|Joe Costello|1994}}

| children = 2

| relatives = Mary Moran (sister)

| alma_mater = University College Dublin

| website = {{URL|emercostello.blogspot.com|Official website}}

|}}

Emer Anne Costello ({{nee|Malone}}; born 3 September 1962) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2012 to 2014, Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2009 to 2010 and a Dublin City Councillor for the North Inner City area from 2003 to 2012.

She is from County Louth, and has a B.A. and a H.Dip. in Education from University College Dublin.

She was first co-opted onto Dublin City Council as a member for the North Inner City area in 2003 to replace her husband, Joe Costello, who resigned following the end of the dual mandate. She was elected in 2004 and re-elected in June 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=242|title=Emer Costello|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=7 September 2008|archive-date=23 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123224302/http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=242|url-status=live}} She was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin by a unanimous vote of the city council at its annual meeting on 15 June 2009, with the support of Fine Gael and the Green Party.{{cite web|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2020-09/lord-mayors-of-dublin-1665-2021.pdf|title=Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2020 |work=Dublin City Council|date=June 2020|access-date=18 November 2023}} Costello has observed international elections in Cambodia, South Africa and Bosnia and Herzegovina.{{cite web|url=http://www.labour.ie/emercostello/biography.html |title=Emer Costello – Biography |publisher=Labour.ie |access-date=27 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515163128/http://www.labour.ie/emercostello/biography.html |archive-date=15 May 2011 }}

Her sister is former Senator Mary Moran.{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/elections/comment-analysis/nicola-anderson-half-the-room-went-wild-but-the-other-half-stood-in-stony-silence-2559050.html|title=Half the room went wild|work=Irish Independent|date=28 February 2011|access-date=6 June 2011|first=Nicola|last=Anderson|archive-date=3 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303050537/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/elections/comment-analysis/nicola-anderson-half-the-room-went-wild-but-the-other-half-stood-in-stony-silence-2559050.html|url-status=live}}

Costello replaced Proinsias De Rossa in the European Parliament when he resigned as an MEP in February 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0116/derossap.html|title=Prionsias De Rossa to step down as MEP|work=RTÉ News|access-date=16 January 2012|archive-date=17 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117225710/http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0116/derossap.html|url-status=live}} She lost her seat at the 2014 European Parliament election.