This is her first time running for general election after she ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 local elections. She is a member of the Cork Local Exchange and Trading System (LETS) and the county Cork local currency network. A prominent environmental activist, she has been involved in numerous campaigns to protect her local area from harmful pollution.

I want to work on two issues, 1. Climate Change which threatens our livelihoods. 2. TTIP, the Trade Treaty that threatens our democracy.

No. 1 for East Cork is fighting the re-application for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy. Incinerators should have no place in a modern economy.

I would like to bring out into the open the effects we can expect if the new secret trade treaties, TTIP, CETA and TISA, are ratified.