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Laura Harmon
Laura Harmon | |
|---|---|
| Senator | |
| Assumed office 30 January 2025 | |
| Constituency | Industrial and Commercial Panel |
| Cork City Councillor | |
| In office June 2024 – January 2025 | |
| Constituency | Cork City South West |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 November 1986 Cork, Ireland |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Alma mater | University College Cork |
Laura Harmon (born 26 November 1986)[1] is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel since January 2025. She was previously a member of Cork City Council for the South West area from June 2024 to January 2025. A housing rights and equality campaigner, Harmon contested the Seanad National University panel elections in 2020 and 2016.
She is a former president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). She was the first woman to fill the role in twenty years. In 2018, Harmon was Mobilisation team lead for the Together For Yes campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
cork_independent_profilewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "USI Congress 2014 Elects Laura Harmon as the new USI President". 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014.
- ^ Marnell, Ruth (3 April 2014). "USI elects first female president in 20 years". Campus.ie. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016.
- ^ Tyaransen, Olaf (15 September 2014). "Laura Harmon Interview". Hot Press.
- ^ Conneely, Ailbhe (19 April 2018). "Together for Yes calls on youth to register to vote". RTÉ News. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
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