Malachy Steenson

Malachy Steenson (born ) politician who was elected to Dublin City Council for the local electoral area of North Inner City at the 2024 local elections. He runs a general law practice, specialising in family law. giving a false address to Gardaí, and a conviction by the Special Criminal Court for unauthorised taking of a vehicle, His home was subject to a raid by the Special Branch in 1994. He was denied a licence to drive a hackney cab in 1998 due to his convictions.

Although active in anti-drug movements during the decade, he opposed a march of concerned parents on Brendan ‘Fats’ Reilly, defending Reilly as an addict but not a dealer; Reilly was subsequently convicted of possession of £30,000 worth of heroin.

Workers' Party He stood for election for the far-left Workers' Party in the 2009 Dublin Central by-election, served as a party spokesman in the 2010 budget protests, and ran as their candidate in Dublin Central in the 2011 general election, before being expelled for attending a pro-life rally after a series of disputes with party leadership. In 2024, a faction of the splintered Workers' Party publicly criticised his praise for Official IRA member Jim Flynn, stating Flynn's former comrades would not appreciate Steenson's attempt at associating himself with Flynn. Steenson served as general secretary of the Association of Combined Residents Associations (ACRA), which opposed water charges.

Far-right activism and election as councillor In a 2021 interview with the conservative student paper The Burkean, Steenson stated I know this term becomes very loaded but with population replacement, the vast majority of those people, of the 'new Irish', won’t have any loyalty to the Irish Nation, they might have a loyalty to the State but they won’t have any concept within themselves, and this is no fault of theirs, but their allegiance within themselves is to their original country. And they will have a vote because they’ve all been given citizenship. Steenson was a guest speaker at the Irish Freedom Party's annual conference in 2022. During his speaking time, Steenson criticised the Gardaí for supporting Gay Pride events and praised Donald Trump for appointing Supreme Court judges who overturned Roe v. Wade, which legislates for abortion in the United States. The man subsequently pleaded guilty and was jailed for 13 months. Steenson also ran in the Dublin constituency for the European elections, where he received 7,128 (1.9%) first preference votes, and was eliminated from the field of 23 candidates on the 12th count.

Steenson ran for election in the Dublin Central constituency of the 2024 Irish general election as an Independent endorsed by the far-right National Alliance. He was eliminated on the sixth count. In November 2025, Steenson announced his intention to contest the 2026 Dublin Central by-election. He was not elected, being eliminated on the fifth count.