Dooley works as a carer. He unsuccessfully ran in the May 2019 local elections. He is the co-founder of the Dublin Renters' Union. He has a degree in business and he formerly worked in retail and sales. He has been involved in campaigns about tenants' rights and health.

Ireland is being run for the benefit of a privileged few. This has led to a huge crisis for low and middle-income earners. I am principled and committed community activist, always on the frontline who knows the issues and has the solutions and energy to build a better and fairer society.

The housing and homelessness crisis... The solutions are there and I am committed to fighting to end it by stopping evictions, cutting the rents, taxing vacant properties, land value tax, stopping the sell-off of public land and building public housing.

The first thing I would do is to introduce emergency legislation to stop evictions and give renters security... Renters need real security of tenure with long-term and lifetime leases, along with cutting the unaffordable rents.