Cairns will today attempt to reach out to disengaged voters, and will take her first Leaders’ Questions slot in the Dáil
Ms Cairns will outline what she hopes to achieve in the role and will also detail her own backstory, including how she now finds herself as the youngest party leader in the Dáil. A source also said she plans to reach out to voters who feel disengaged from the political system, and that one of her biggest tasks will be to reach out to those people.
First elected to the Dáil in 2020, and the only woman TD to be returned from any constituency in Cork in the last general election, Ms Cairns was one of the most high-profile newcomers to enter Leinster House that year and one of the few to command a national profile. A trained horticulturalist, along with her mother Madeline McKeever, she ran a 30-acre mixed farm comprising a small number of cattle, seed production and forestry on the Turk Head peninsula near Baltimore and Schull in west Cork.of the Social Democrats. Ms Shortall said she and Ms Murphy had decided that “the time is right now to hand over the leadership reins of the party to the next generation of Social Democrats”.
The pair said they were taking the decision to step down to allow a successor time to prepare for upcoming elections, and rejected any suggestion they had been asked to make way for a new leader. Ms Shortall said neither of them was leaving politics but they will be “fully supporting and assisting” the new leader. Both confirmed their intention to contest the next general election.
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