Emma Blain

Emma Blain is an Irish Fine Gael politician and former journalist who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from December 2024 to June 2025. She has been a member of Dublin City Council for the Pembroke local electoral area since 2024. She succeeded James Geoghegan as Lord Mayor of Dublin after his election to Dáil Eireann.

Journalism Blain was the editor of The Church of Ireland Gazette from 2020 to 2024, During the Celtic Tiger she was in her own words "a form of influencer" as an O3 Girl at the Sunday Independent. An "O3 girl" was a young female journalist featured in the Sunday Independent during the early 2000s, who contributed short opinion columns accompanied by posed, often provocative photographs. The initiative was framed as a blend of light commentary and glamour, but was criticised by some as objectifying women in journalism. She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Industrial and Commercial Panel at the 2020 Seanad election.

Blain ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Dublin Bay South constituency at the 2024 general election.