Bríd Smith

Bríd Smith (born 18 September 1961) is an Irish former People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 2016 to 2024.

[5] She has addressed large crowds at demonstrations, such as the visit to Dublin by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair[6] and the 2004 protests against the Iraq War.

[9] Smith first contested a general election in 1997, when she ran for the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), receiving 0.54% of the vote in Dublin South-Central.

[10] She was elected to Dublin City Council as a People Before Profit candidate for the Ballyfermot–Drimnagh local electoral area in 2009, and re-elected in 2014.

The previous month, Smith had said in the Dáil that it was "a day when tens of thousands of workers will wake up to the realisation that a learned judge of the High Court, who earns more than €220,000 per year, has decided in his wisdom that an electrician who may earn €45,000 per year is possibly overpaid, and has then struck down a sectoral employment order that will affect tens of thousands of workers already on low pay.

[8] In January 2024 she was selected by People Before Profit to contest the 2024 European Parliament election for the Dublin constituency.