Career
From Galway, she is a graduate of National University of Ireland Galway and the King"s Inns. She is currently the Labour Party Seanad spokesperson on Reform and Foreign Affairs. She ran as the Labour Party candidate in the Galway-East constituency in the 2016 General Election but was not elected, and has not been selected for re-appointment to the 25th Seanad.
Following yet another election defeat she conceded that it is "highly unlikely" that she will "be involved in representative politics again".
She ran as a candidate in the Galway East constituency at the 2011 general election where she trailed her running mate by 132 votes before being eliminated and then transferred 64% of her vote to him to secure the first ever Labour seat in the constituency. In May 2011, she was nominated by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the 24th Seanad.
She unsuccessfully contested the 2016 Irish general election for the Galway East constituency. She did however get the most Party votes in all the constituencies they contested.