A Cork city councillor, he was first elected to the Council in 2009 and retained his seat in 2014. He has ran unsuccessfully for a Dáil seat on a number of occasions. He is a former chairman of Mayfield East Community Association in Cork and is a prominent anti-austerity campaigner and social rights activist.

I stand on my record and that of the Workers' Party of fighting for working class people against the politics of austerity and capitalism.

To fight for the provision of genuinely affordable housing for all who require it via establishment of local authority direct labour units.

Liaise with others on the left to force the permanent scrapping of water charges and the LPT, and for the abolition of Irish Water.