Mulherin has served as a Senator since 2016. She is the most recent Seanad spokesperson on agriculture, food and the marine. She was first elected to Ballina Town Council in 1999 and Mayo County Council in 2004. She was Mayor of Ballina in 2008. She unsuccessfully ran in the 2007 Dáil and Seanad elections. Mulherin is a trained solicitor.

My track record shows I have championed many issues from the plight of beef and suckler farmers to pension equality for women, to supports for small businesses including retailers, to the need for a just transition for citizens and businesses hardest pressed on account of the implementation of climate action policies.

To deliver more strategic infrastructure connectivity for Mayo such as air, roads, rail and broadband so that the people in a more peripheral, rural area of Ireland can attract more of the economic and jobs growth we see in the urban centres.

Commence a plan for strategic decentralisation of some government agencies and departments to the more rural regions to free up office, accommodation, housing, schools and other public services in the cities which are currently overwhelmed.