Emer Currie

{{Short description|Irish politician (born 1979)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-suffix = TD

| image = Newly Elected Deputy Emer Currie TD (54179088136) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Currie in 2024

| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = November 2024

| term_end =

| constituency = Dublin West

| office1 = Senator

| term_start1 = 29 June 2020

| term_end1 = 30 November 2024

| constituency1 = Nominated by the Taoiseach

| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1979|5|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Fine Gael

| spouse = Malcolm Craig

| children = 2

| father = Austin Currie

| alma_mater = Queen's University Belfast

| website =

|}}

Emer Currie (born 1 May 1979){{cite web |title='We intend on being prepared for election' - daughter of former Fine Gael minister selected as Varadkar's running mate |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-intend-on-being-prepared-for-election-daughter-of-former-fine-gael-minister-selected-as-varadkars-running-mate-37098928.html |website=independent.ie |date=9 July 2018 |publisher=The Independent |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629171938/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-intend-on-being-prepared-for-election-daughter-of-former-fine-gael-minister-selected-as-varadkars-running-mate-37098928.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/emer_currie1/status/1653137338329866252|via=Twitter|author=Emer Currie|title=Here it is! And released on my birthday too. When I was asked to do a TedTalk in Stormont of all places, there was only one thing I could talk about…a man who changed it forever|publication-date=1 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609025735/https://twitter.com/emer_currie1/status/1653137338329866252|archive-date=9 June 2023}} is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since the 2024 general election. She previously served as a Senator from 2020 to 2024, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Emer-Currie.S.2020-06-29/|title=Emer Currie|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=7 July 2020|archive-date=10 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710190534/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Emer-Currie.S.2020-06-29/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces his 11 Seanad nominees |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-seanad-nominees-5135086-Jun2020/ |website=thejournal.ie |date=27 June 2020 |publisher=The Journal |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210605061933/https://www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-seanad-nominees-5135086-Jun2020/ |url-status=live }}

She previously served as a member of Fingal County Council from 2019 to 2020.{{cite web |title=Emer Currie Dublin West |url=https://www.finegael.ie/our-people/senators/dublin/dublin-west/emer-currie/ |publisher=Fine Gael |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=30 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630082038/https://www.finegael.ie/our-people/senators/dublin/dublin-west/emer-currie/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=11867|title=Emer Currie|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=13 January 2025}}

Currie was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 general election as the Fine Gael running mate of outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin West.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-west-results-joan-burton-and-ruth-coppinger-lose-seats-1.4165187 |title=Dublin West results: Joan Burton and Ruth Coppinger lose seats |date=10 February 2020 |first=Marie |last=O'Halloran |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Dublin |access-date=5 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210605214622/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-west-results-joan-burton-and-ruth-coppinger-lose-seats-1.4165187 |archive-date=5 June 2021 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/dublin-west |title=Election 2020: Dublin West |date=10 February 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Dublin |access-date=5 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210605215238/https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/dublin-west |archive-date=5 June 2021 }} She was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 Seanad election but was later nominated by the Taoiseach.

Her father, Austin Currie, was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland as well as a former Minister of State and TD in the Republic of Ireland.{{cite web |title='We intend on being prepared for election' - daughter of former Fine Gael minister selected as Varadkar's running mate |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-intend-on-being-prepared-for-election-daughter-of-former-fine-gael-minister-selected-as-varadkars-running-mate-37098928.html |website=independent.ie |date=9 July 2018 |publisher=The Independent |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629171938/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-intend-on-being-prepared-for-election-daughter-of-former-fine-gael-minister-selected-as-varadkars-running-mate-37098928.html |url-status=live }}

She was elected to the Dáil for the Dublin West constituency at the 2024 general election.