Fianna Fail Councillor Daithi de Roiste has been elected as the new Lord Mayor of Dublin following a vote at Dublin City Council's annual meeting this evening.
Cllr de Roiste will become the city's 355th Lord Mayor, succeeding the Green Party's Caroline Conroy. Cllr de Roiste was born and raised in Ballyfermot, Dublin.
A member of Fianna Fail, he was elected to Dublin City Council in 2014 at the age of 26 and was subsequently re-elected in 2019, representing the Ballyfermot/Drimnagh local electoral area. He is the son of Michael and Catherine Roche and he has one sister, Emma.