Sheila Nunan is a former president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and former General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation.
[1] [2] She has been a member of the executive of the INTO since 1995 and was INTO President from 2005 to 2006, and INTO General Secretary from 2010 until 2019.
Sheila Nunan was the first woman to hold the role of General Secretary in the trade union's 150-year history.
Nunan is a former primary school teacher and principal.
Her selection attracted controversy as she lives in County Dublin, which is not part of the South constituency.