Education
University College Dublin.
University College Dublin.
White co-founded Lir Chocolates in 1987. She was first elected to the Seanad in 2002 and was re-elected in 2007 and in 2011. On 6 February 2008, White declared her candidacy to succeed Mary McAleese as President of Ireland.
In May 2011, she said that she would not be seeking a nomination.
She is the Fianna Fáil Seanad spokesperson on Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation.
She has an Arts degree in Economics and Politics from University College Dublin and a Higher Diploma in Architectural Technology from the Dublin Institute of Technology. She was seeking the nomination of the Fianna Fáil party and was the first candidate to declare her intention to run.
She is a member of Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel since September 2002.