About Garret Ahearn
Born 1980. Garret Ahearn is an Irish politician.
Garret Ahearn (born 1980) is the Leader of the Seanad and an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a senator for the Administrative Panel since April 2020. He is vice-chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade.
He was vice-chair of the Fine Gael parliamentary party until March 2025. He was Seanad Government chief whip until June 2026. He is Fine Gael spokesperson for Foreign Affairs. He was vice-chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment until November 2024.
Prior to becoming a senator, he was a member of Tipperary County Council from 2019 to 2020. He was Mayor of Clonmel from 2019 to 2020.
He unsuccessfully contested the Tipperary constituency at the 2020 general election.
He is the son of Theresa Ahearn, who served as a Fine Gael TD for the Tipperary South constituency from 1989 to 2000.
Ahearn was appointed as Leader of the Seanad in June 2026.
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Irish politician
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Garret Ahearn was born in 1980 in Dublin.
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