Darren O'Rourke

Darren O'Rourke (born 1979/1980) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath East constituency since the 2020 general election.

Background Originally from Kells, O'Rourke trained in Dublin Institute of Technology and holds a number of master's degrees from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was a medical scientist at St. James's Hospital in Dublin. which was won by Fine Gael's Helen McEntee. He was unsuccessful again at the 2016 general election, but at the 2020 general election he topped the poll with 24.4% of the first-preference votes, and was elected on the second count.

He was a member of Meath County Council for the Ashbourne local electoral area from 2014 to 2020. Aisling Ó Néill was co-opted to O'Rourke's seat on Meath County Council following his election to the Dáil.

In 2022, O'Rourke put forward a bill to require all pharmaceutical companies to make their payments to healthcare organisations and professionals public in a register.