O'Reilly is a councillor on Cavan County Council. She is a former member of Fianna Fáil who left the party in December 2018 to join Aontú. She was first co-opted to the council in 2016 and retained her seat in the 2019 local elections.

The failures of the current government in effectively tackling the issues affecting Cavan, Monaghan and rural Ireland in general will only be addressed by returning good opposition, capable of holding government to account.

My constituents ask for decent roads, good communications, better transport links, properly resourced health/mental health and drug addiction services and affordable housing.

I would make a start on tackling the crises in our health service by immediately starting the recruitment process for more doctors and nurses including GPs and mental health professionals and identifying areas where we can increase bed capacity.